Asked by: Nadia Whittome (Labour - Nottingham East)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to support services that support people with multiple disadvantages and implement trauma-informed approaches.
Answered by Felicity Buchan
The Department is committed to improving services for people and families experiencing multiple disadvantage. The Changing Futures programme is a £77 million programme, funded by Government and The National Lottery Community Fund, that tests innovative approaches to service provision to improve outcomes for people experiencing multiple disadvantage. The programme is led by DLUHC and directly supports people in fifteen local areas in England who experience multiple disadvantage, including combinations of three or more of homelessness; substance misuse; mental health issues; domestic abuse and contact with the criminal justice system.
Asked by: Nadia Whittome (Labour - Nottingham East)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding for levelling up.
Answered by Dehenna Davison
Levelling up underpins this Government’s ambitions. My department alone has allocated over £9.9 billion from levelling up funds since 2019 and over £11 billion in long-term flexible investment funds for Mayoral Combined Authorities and areas with recently-agreed devolution deals. Across government, we are investing in urban transport, spending millions on local bus services; refocusing cultural and R&D spend outside London; successfully recruiting 20,000 police; establishing over 100 Community Diagnostic Centres; and much more.
Asked by: Nadia Whittome (Labour - Nottingham East)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if his Department has plans to extend the Changing Futures programme beyond March 2024.
Answered by Felicity Buchan
The Changing Futures programme is a £64 million initiative between Government and The National Lottery Community Fund, running until 2024/25. Fifteen local areas are now supporting over 1,500 of the most vulnerable adults in our communities – people experiencing combinations of mental ill health, substance misuse, homelessness, domestic abuse and contact with the criminal justice system - to change their lives for the better.
Any announcements about future plans for the programme will be made in due course.
Asked by: Nadia Whittome (Labour - Nottingham East)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many households were entitled to the (a) Prevention and (b) Relief Duty where the lead applicant was lesbian or gay and aged 16-25 in (i) 2020-2021 (ii) 2021-2022.
Answered by Felicity Buchan
Homelessness Statistics for 2020-21 are available here and 2021-22 are available here. These include data on the sexual identity and ethnicity of the main applicant owed statutory homelessness prevention and relief duties.
The department does not publish data on domestic abuse based on sexual or gender identification.
Asked by: Nadia Whittome (Labour - Nottingham East)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many households were entitled to the (a) Prevention and (b) Relief Duty where the lead applicant was (i) transgender and (ii) non-binary in 2021-2022.
Answered by Felicity Buchan
Homelessness Statistics for 2020-21 are available here and 2021-22 are available here. These include data on the sexual identity and ethnicity of the main applicant owed statutory homelessness prevention and relief duties.
The department does not publish data on domestic abuse based on sexual or gender identification.
Asked by: Nadia Whittome (Labour - Nottingham East)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many households were entitled to the (a) Prevention and (b) Relief Duty where the lead applicant was 16-25 and from a minority ethnic background in (i) 2020-2021 (ii) 2021-2022.
Answered by Felicity Buchan
Homelessness Statistics for 2020-21 are available here and 2021-22 are available here. These include data on the sexual identity and ethnicity of the main applicant owed statutory homelessness prevention and relief duties.
The department does not publish data on domestic abuse based on sexual or gender identification.
Asked by: Nadia Whittome (Labour - Nottingham East)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle homelessness among LGBTQ+ young people aged 16-25.
Answered by Felicity Buchan
Homelessness Statistics for 2020-21 are available here and 2021-22 are available here. These include data on the sexual identity and ethnicity of the main applicant owed statutory homelessness prevention and relief duties.
The department does not publish data on domestic abuse based on sexual or gender identification.
Asked by: Nadia Whittome (Labour - Nottingham East)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many households were entitled to the (a) Prevention and (b) Relief Duty due to domestic abuse where the lead applicant was lesbian or gay, aged 16-25 and from a minority ethnic background in (i) 2020-2021 (ii) 2021-2022.
Answered by Felicity Buchan
Homelessness Statistics for 2020-21 are available here and 2021-22 are available here. These include data on the sexual identity and ethnicity of the main applicant owed statutory homelessness prevention and relief duties.
The department does not publish data on domestic abuse based on sexual or gender identification.
Asked by: Nadia Whittome (Labour - Nottingham East)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many households were entitled to the (a) Prevention and (b) Relief Duty where the lead applicant was lesbian or gay, aged 16-25 and from a minority ethnic background in (i) 2020-2021 and (ii) 2021-2022.
Answered by Felicity Buchan
Homelessness Statistics for 2020-21 are available here and 2021-22 are available here. These include data on the sexual identity and ethnicity of the main applicant owed statutory homelessness prevention and relief duties.
The department does not publish data on domestic abuse based on sexual or gender identification.
Asked by: Nadia Whittome (Labour - Nottingham East)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many households were entitled to the (a) Prevention and (b) Relief Duty due to domestic abuse where the lead applicant was lesbian or gay and aged 16-25 in (i) 2020-2021 (ii) 2021-2022.
Answered by Felicity Buchan
Homelessness Statistics for 2020-21 are available here and 2021-22 are available here. These include data on the sexual identity and ethnicity of the main applicant owed statutory homelessness prevention and relief duties.
The department does not publish data on domestic abuse based on sexual or gender identification.