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

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the role of homeless charities with regard to upholding the rights of vulnerable people.

Charities, and the thousands of people who work for them and volunteer with them, make a real difference to the lives of vulnerable people. Working in close partnership with established and statutory homelessness services, they are part of vital work to provide consistent, high quality support for vulnerable people.

We all need to work together to break the homelessness cycle, and we are committed to drawing on as much expertise and experience as we can. We have established a Rough Sleeping Advisory Panel, made up of key representatives from local government, central government and homelessness charities. Together, they provide a depth of expertise on rough sleeping and will work closely with the Rough Sleeping and Homelessness Reduction Taskforce, to develop the strategy to achieve the Government’s commitment to halve rough sleeping by 2022.