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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he plans to take to reduce the number of homeless families with children living in temporary accommodation for longer than the six-week legal limit.

In December 2015 we launched a package of measures to combat homelessness. These measures include a £5 million fund for the 25 local authorities facing the greatest pressures in moving people more quickly out of temporary accommodation and into a settled home. This package also included a number of measures on homelessness prevention. Further details can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/radical-package-of-measures-announced-to-tackle-homelessness

The Department is committed to combating homelessness and from 2017/18 we will also be devolving the current funding for the temporary accommodation management fee, with an additional £10 million for those areas facing the greatest pressures.