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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the £2 billion funding to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping announced in the Autumn 2021 Spending Review, what steps he is taking to ensure that grant funding for Capital Letters, a not-for-profit organisation that procures accommodation for homeless households on behalf of London boroughs, will be extended beyond March 2022.

Capital Letters was set up in 2018 with the support of £37.8 million of Government funding. As announced at the Spending Review the Government will be spending over £2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the next 3 years. Allocations of funding for individual programmes will be announced in due course.