Department for Communities and Local Government written question – answered at on 29 November 2016.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the level of homeless need in Greater Manchester.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimates he has made of the number of people who were homeless in (a) Salford and (b) Greater Manchester in each year since 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what information his Department holds on the number of homeless people in (a) Salford and (b) Greater Manchester with a (i) disability and (ii) mental health condition.
Homelessness acceptances remain less than half the 2003-4 peak, but one person without a home is still one too many. That is why we have protected £315 million for local authority homelessness prevention funding, and secured £149 million central government funding in this Parliament. From 2010/11 to 2016/17, councils in Greater Manchester received a combined total of £18,459,856 in Homelessness Prevention Funding.
The Department has recently launched a £20 million programme to establish a network of ambitious Homelessness Prevention Trailblazer areas to develop innovative new approaches to prevent homelessness. Greater Manchester has agreed to be one of the early adopters of this approach.
We have a strong homelessness safety net, but we want to go further by putting prevention at the heart of our approach to tackling homelessness. That is why we are supporting Bob Blackman MP’s Private Members’ Bill. The Homelessness Reduction Bill will significantly reform England’s homelessness legislation, ensuring that more people get the help they need earlier to prevent them from becoming homelessness in the first place.
Statistics on homelessness acceptances for each local authority in England can be found in live table 784:
Homelessness statistics record those households who are accepted as homeless and owed the statutory homelessness duty by priority need category. The statistics record the lead reason someone is vulnerable and in priority need, such as those vulnerable as a result of disability or mental health condition. Of the households who are in priority need as a result of dependent children then this will be recorded as the lead reason, rather than any disability or mental health condition they may additionally have.
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