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

To ask Her Majesty's Government how much funding they have provided to local authorities to prevent homelessness (1) since the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 was enacted, and (2) in each of the last 10 years prior to the enactment of that Act.

This Government is committed to reducing homelessness and rough sleeping. No one should ever have to sleep rough. That is why last summer we published the cross-government Rough Sleeping Strategy which sets out an ambitious £100 million package to help people who sleep rough now, but also puts in place the structures that will end rough sleeping once and for all. Already, this has provided over 1,750 new bed spaces and 500 staff– this means there are more people in warm beds tonight as direct result of government funding.

In all, the Government has now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review period. Since the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 was enacted on 3^rd April 2018 local authorities have been allocated £346 million. The table below highlights the amount of funding issued to local authorities in each of the years prior to the Homelessness Reduction Act being enacted: