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

What progress he has made on finding accommodation for rough sleepers during the covid-19 outbreak.

On 26^th March I wrote to local authority leaders, asking them to bring ‘Everybody In’.

We saw a phenomenal response; due to the hard work of councils, charities and volunteers, 15,000 rough sleepers and vulnerable people have been housed in hotels and other forms of emergency accommodation, since the start of the pandemic.

We are also providing £105 million for interim accommodation and £160 million for long term accommodation, which includes funding to make 3,300 new supported homes available in the next 12 months.