Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many households have benefited from the Homelessness Prevention Grant since it was launched in December 2021.

The Homelessness Prevention Grant supports local authorities in England to deliver their statutory duties to prevent and relieve homelessness and provide temporary accommodation where required. The funding is paid to councils and can be used flexibly to deliver their homelessness and rough sleeping strategies, in line with local priorities. 278,110 households were assessed as either being threatened with homelessness or already homeless in 2021-22 and therefore owed a homelessness duty and supported by councils.