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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what Government funding is available to support local authorities in providing joined up services to support rough sleepers.

The Government has committed to spending over £2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the next 3 years, with multi-year funding enabling local authorities and their partners to with work together to better plan services and maximise efficiencies.

This includes the Rough Sleeping Initiative which provided an investment of £202 million this year to local authorities to enable them to collaborate and creatively work with their various partners to provide services to support people off the street and move people on from emergency accommodation. There is also the £435 million Rough Sleeping Accommodation Programme which provides funding to local authorities and their partners to deliver 6,000 move-on homes and accompanying support services to those who are rough sleeping or who have a history of sleeping rough.