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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what his policy is on tackling homelessness.

This Government remains clear that one person without a home is one too many and we are committed to preventing and reducing homelessness and rough sleeping. To achieve this we have taken a number of important actions such as implementing the most ambitious legislative reform in decades, the Homelessness Reduction Act which commences in April 2018.

We have established the Rough Sleeping and Homelessness Reduction Taskforce that will design and drive forward the implementation of a cross Government strategy to achieve our commitment of halving rough sleeping by 2022 and eliminating it altogether by 2027. Supporting the Taskforce is the expert Rough Sleeping Advisory Panel.

The Department has allocated over £1 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping through to 2020.