Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will take steps to ensure that local authorities do not reduce services under the Rough Sleeping Initiative.
The Rough Sleeping Initiative supports local authorities to develop their rough sleeping pathways, including providing emergency beds, off-the-street accommodation and wrap-around support. This multi-year commitment gives the funding certainty to local authorities to build on the successes they have achieved, to think longer-term about their responses to rough sleeping to focus on prevention and sustaining a life away from the streets.