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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to (a) deliver long-term financial sustainability for the supported housing sector and (b) prevent the decommissioning of supported housing schemes.

Commissioning of local housing-related support services is for local authorities. Local authorities are best placed to decide how their funding is spent locally. For 2025-26, the Government has delivered a Settlement that begins to fix the foundations of local government by providing significant investment. The Settlement for 2025-26 makes available over £69 billion for local government, which is a 6.8% cash terms increase in councils’ Core Spending Power on 2024-25. The recent Spending Review provides over £5 billion of new grant funding over the next three years for local services that communities rely on. This includes £3.4 billion of new grant funding through the Local Government Finance Settlement within financial years 2026-27 to 2028-29.

At the Spending Review, the government also announced £39 billion for a new Social and Affordable Homes Programme over 10 years from 2026-27 to 2035-36. The programme is designed with the flexibility necessary to support a greater diversity of social and affordable supply, including supported housing.