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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of recent research by Shelter which has found that 55 per cent of homeless families in England are in work.

This Government is committed to tackling homelessness and fully enforcing the Homelessness Reduction Act.

In 2020/21 we are providing over £700 million to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping alone.

In April 2020 we increased the Local Housing Allowance rates for Universal Credit and Housing Benefit claimants so that they are set at the 30th percentile of market rents.  This is an important policy that will benefit 1.5 million people and the average claimant will gain an additional £600 per year in increased housing support. Next year these rates will be maintained at their increased level.