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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much funding local authorities are planned to receive from his Department to house homeless populations in (a) hotels, (b) short-term accommodation and (c) move-on accommodation during the covid-19 outbreak.

We have made?£3.2?billion of additional funding available for local authorities to enable them to respond to COVID-19 pressures across the services they deliver including helping homeless populations. This is in addition to £3.2 million in targeted funding for councils to support vulnerable rough sleepers. We are also continuing our ongoing work to ensure that we deliver the Government’s manifesto commitment to end rough sleeping by the end of this Parliament. We have put in place?£489 million to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over 2020/21. This marks a £121 million, or 33 per cent increase in funding from the previous year.

As part of this, £112 million?was allocated this year?for?the Rough Sleeping Initiative (RSI),?an increase of £26 million on 2019/20 funding. The Chancellor also announced significant funding at Budget for rough sleeping accommodation?(£381 million over 4 years) and substance misuse support (£262 million over 4 years).