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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the announcement made by him and the Prime Minister on 21 December 2016, on tackling homelessness, when he expects the trials of the Housing First model to begin.

In December 2016 the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government announced support for 84 projects through our £50 million Homelessness Prevention Programme, to deliver an end-to-end approach to homelessness prevention, which included £30 million for Rough Sleepers. A number of these areas are already using the Housing First model as part of their approach.

We are also aiming to halve rough sleeping by 2022 and eliminate it altogether by 2027. To achieve this we are setting up a rough sleeping and homelessness taskforce and piloting a Housing First approach on a larger scale to tackle rough sleeping. We will announce further details shortly.

This should be a country that works for everyone, especially the most vulnerable in society, and we are committed to making sure everyone has a roof over their heads.