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Written Question
Prisoners' Release: Homelessness
Monday 18th December 2023

Asked by: Lord German (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to prevent the homelessness to prison cycle.

Answered by Baroness Penn - Minister on Leave (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State)

The Government’s Rough Sleeping Strategy published in September 2022 and published here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ending-rough-sleeping-for-good), sets out, in section 4.1, how we are delivering our aim that no one should leave prison homeless or to sleep rough.

Since publication of the strategy we have published further allocations for the Accommodation for ex-Offenders scheme up to March 2025, which are available here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/accommodation-for-ex-offenders-scheme-local-authority-funding-allocations-between-july-2021-and-march-2025


Written Question
Housing: Armed Forces
Monday 7th March 2022

Asked by: Lord German (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) requirement for housing applies to housing units in the UK provided for the armed forces.

Answered by Lord Greenhalgh

The requirement to obtain an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) applies to housing units in the UK provided for the armed forces. However, the Energy Performance of Buildings Regulations specify that general access data need not be disclosed on the EPC Register if it relates to an excluded building, which includes buildings owned, occupied or used by or for the purposes of any of the armed forces.