Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the press release entitled £53 million cash boost to improve housing support for drug and alcohol recovery, published on 3 February 2023, what metrics were used for the allocation of funding to improve housing support for drug and alcohol recovery.

The Housing Support Grant is a limited fund with the aim of building evidence on what works in a targeted number of Local Authorities. The 28 upper-tier local authorities eligible for funding were selected using a formula-based methodology agreed between the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. This was based primarily on local authorities with the highest levels of housing-related need amongst people in substance misuse treatment, according to data from the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System.