Supported Housing: Domestic Abuse

(asked on 25th January 2021) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many victims of domestic abuse are living in exempt accommodation in (a) England and (b) Birmingham as at 25 January 2021.


Answered by
Eddie Hughes Portrait
Eddie Hughes
This question was answered on 28th January 2021

There is national data on the number of bed spaces for victims of domestic abuse: as of May 2020 providers registered with Women’s Aid were providing 3,935 bed spaces.

Domestic abuse refuges are classed as supported exempt accommodation. As the commissioning and funding of all supported housing, and responsibility for administering Housing Benefit claims is devolved to local authorities, my Department does not hold data centrally on the number of providers or units for all supported exempt accommodation.

The supported housing pilots include funding for five local authorities to determine need and supply within their areas, including an overview of the types of supported housing and the client groups they are providing for. Birmingham is one of the funded areas who will be producing this strategic need and supply assessment.

We are working closely with local authorities, Women’s Aid and Imkaan on the issue of supported accommodation housing victims of domestic abuse.

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