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

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of people who are homeless have no recourse to public funds.

This Department does not collect information on the proportion of homeless people who have no recourse to public funds. The Government collects statistics on wider homelessness issues, such as acceptances and numbers in temporary accommodation. This data can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness.

The 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