SCOTLAND’S housing emergency has left a record 10,000 children “without a home to call their own” amid plummeting housebuilding numbers under the SNP, according to Anas Sarwar.

The Scottish Labour leader used the final First Minister’s Questions before Holyrood’s Christmas recess to hit out at the impact on young people’s lives of soaring homelessness.

Citing statistics released by the Scottish government on Tuesday that, despite having declared a housing emergency almost a year ago, housebuilding had since fallen by 10 per cent and “affordable” building starts had nose-dived to their lowest levels in a decade.