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

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to bring forward proposals to develop a funding formula in order to allocate the Homelessness Prevention Grant to local authorities based on the extent of homelessness and rough sleeping, including the number of people at risk of homelessness, in their area.

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.