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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to paragraph 5.12 of the Autumn Statement 2016, how much of the additional £10 million committed to the Rough Sleeping Fund will be spent in each region.

One person without a home is one too many. That is why we have made a £50 million Homelessness Prevention Programme available to local authorities all over England to provide an innovative approach to tackling homelessness, with prevention at its heart. This includes an additional £10 million announced at Autumn Statement for the Rough Sleeping Fund to support people at imminent risk of, or new to sleeping rough.

Bids to all of the funds in the Homelessness Prevention Programme are currently being assessed on the basis of the criteria set out in the funding prospectuses, and successful areas will be announced in due course.