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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the data on the average time households with children spend in temporary accommodation in the official statistical release entitled Statutory Homelessness Annual Report 2021-22, England, published on 22 September 2022.

This Government is committed to reducing the need for temporary accommodation. Local authorities have received £316 million through the Homelessness Prevention Grant in 2022-23, part of the significant funding we are investing to tackle Homelessness and Rough Sleeping.