Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to tackle homelessness in the UK.

This Government remains clear that one person without a home is one too many, and we are committed to preventing and reducing homelessness and Rough Sleeping.

To achieve this, we have taken a number of important actions, including implementing the most ambitious legislative reform in decades The Homelessness Reduction Act came into force in April 2018.

We have established the Rough Sleeping and Homelessness Reduction Taskforce that will bring forward the implementation of a cross-Government strategy, to achieve our commitment of halving rough sleeping by 2022 and eliminating it altogether by 2027.

Supporting the Taskforce is the expert Rough Sleeping Advisory Panel. In addition, the Government has now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and Rough Sleeping through to 2020.