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 reduce rough sleeping.

No one should ever have to sleep rough. That is why this Government has committed to halving rough sleeping by 2022 and eliminating it altogether by 2027. A new Rough Sleeping and Homelessness Reduction Taskforce is bringing together relevant ministers from across Government, and will drive forward the implementation of a cross-Government strategy to tackle this issue. They are being supported by an Advisory Panel made up of experts from local government and the homelessness sector.

We have allocated over £1 billion through to 2020 to prevent and reduce all forms of homelessness including piloting a Housing First approach for some of the most entrenched rough sleepers.