Asked by: Sharon Hodgson (Labour - Washington and Gateshead South)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans his Department has to record the number of street homeless veterans.
Answered by Luke Hall
In April 2018, my Department introduced Homelessness Case Level Information Collection (H-CLIC). H-CLIC captures information on all those who engage with local authority homelessness services, including support need resulting from being in the armed forces.
In addition, the Combined Homelessness and Information Network (CHAIN) is a multi-agency database which records information, including former armed forces service, about people seen rough sleeping by outreach teams in London across the year.
There are?a number of?existing support services available to?veterans who are experiencing, or are at risk of, homelessness. This includes the?Veterans Gateway, an online web and telephone resource for?veterans, providing access to a housing specialist who has up-to-date information regarding vacancies.
Asked by: Sharon Hodgson (Labour - Washington and Gateshead South)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to record the (a) gender, (b) age, (c) ethnicity and (d) nationality of people who are street homeless.
Answered by Luke Hall
My Department’s annual Rough Sleeping?Snapshot?Statistics provide information about the estimated number of people sleeping rough across local authorities in England on a single night. This data includes demographic information such as age, gender and nationality. These statistics do not currently include ethnicity of people sleeping rough.
The most recent national figures, from the Official 2019 Rough Sleeping Snapshot, showed that the?number of people sleeping on our streets on a single night fell for the second year?in a row. These statistics are available at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/rough-sleeping-snapshot-in-england-autumn-2019.
Asked by: Sharon Hodgson (Labour - Washington and Gateshead South)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when there will be a minister in place responsible for the communities portfolio.
Answered by Luke Hall
My noble Friend Lord Greenhalgh is the minister responsible for the communities portfolio.
Asked by: Sharon Hodgson (Labour - Washington and Gateshead South)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effect of the spare room subsidy on trends in the level of empty properties.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
Statistics on vacant dwellings in England and in each local authority district are published in the Department's live table 615, which is available at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-dwelling-stock-including-vacants.
This table shows the annual total numbers of empty homes and those vacant longer than six months and also vacants in the local authority, housing association and other public sector tenures
The number of long-term vacant dwellings across England remains lower than when records began.