Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the £65 million support package for vulnerable renters announced by his Department on 23 October 2021, how much and what proportion of that funding has been distributed by (a) region and (b) local authority as on 20 July 2022.

The Government provided councils with £310 million in funding for the Homelessness Prevention Grant in 2021/22. They can use this funding flexibly to meet their homelessness and rough sleeping strategies – for example, to offer financial support for people to find a new home, to work with landlords to prevent evictions or to provide temporary accommodation, among other preventative measures.

In October 2021 the Government provided a £65 million top-up to this funding to help councils prevent those with rent arrears from becoming homeless. You can find the breakdown of funding by local authority level at this link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/homelessness-prevention-grant-2021-to-2022.

The regional breakdown is as follows: