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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what proportion of people who are roofless have no recourse to public funds.

The Department does not collect information on the proportion of rough sleepers who have no recourse to public funds. Information on rough sleepers’ self-reported immigration status can be accessed through CHAIN’s annual reports, found here: https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/chain-reports.

This Government is committed to reducing homelessness and rough sleeping. No one should ever have to sleep rough. That is why last summer we published the cross-government Rough Sleeping Strategy, which sets out an ambitious £100 million package to help people who sleep rough now, but also puts in place the structures that will end rough sleeping once and for all. The Government has now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review period.

The Rough Sleeping Strategy funding includes £5 million for a new fund to help local areas take action to help non-UK nationals who sleep rough get off the streets.

This funding will complement the projects which we have already funded through the £100 million Controlling Migration Fund (CMF) for local authorities to work with non-UK nationals who sleep rough.