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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to page 9 of the Government Response to the Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee report on protecting the homeless and the private rented sector, published on 24 May 2021, CP 439, and the planned independent review referred to in the Government's response to recommendation four in that document, when his Department will review the manifesto commitment to end rough sleeping by the end of this Parliament.

We have made excellent progress on our manifesto commitment to end rough sleeping this Parliament. The annual rough sleeping snapshot in 2020 saw a 37% reduction from the year before, and rough sleeping levels have fallen 43% since 2017.

To build on this progress, the Government will be spending over £2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the next three years, with multi-year funding enabling local partners to better plan services.