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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to protect funding for tackling homelessness.

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. This Government’s manifesto committed to halving rough sleeping in this Parliament and to end it for good by 2027.

The Government has now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review period including £617 million ring fenced funding via the Flexible Homelessness Support Grant, which local authorities can use strategically to tackle homelessness in their area.