Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, for what reasons his Department made the decision not to use the existing category of specified exempt accommodation as the basis for funding short-term supported housing in the proposals contained in the consultation document, Funding Supported Housing: Policy Statement and Consultation, published in October 2017.

The definition of Specified Accommodation is much wider in scope. The short-term accommodation definition published in the consultation document sets the parameters for crisis and transitional provision which will be funded through the short-term accommodation grant.