Homelessness

(asked on 25th November 2015) - View Source

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

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what recent discussions they have had with stakeholders about the implementation of a monitoring system to track how the Homelessness Prevention Grant is spent.


Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Shadow Chief Whip (Lords)
This question was answered on 8th December 2015

Decisions around locally funded services will be set out in the provisional Local Government Settlement, which we intend to announce before recess.

Local authority expenditure on homelessness is recorded in the Revenue Outturn tables which are published annually (attached) and available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/478073/Revenue_Outturn__RO4__data_2014-15_by_LA_-_19-Nov-2015.xls

National homelessness statistics record detailed information on local housing authority homelessness activity. This includes the number of homelessness households, how many had their homelessness prevented and also the reason for the loss of their last settled home.


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