Homelessness: Wandsworth

Department for Communities and Local Government written question – answered at on 11 January 2018.

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Photo of Lucy Allan Lucy Allan Conservative, Telford

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of children in the London Borough of Wandsworth who will be homeless on 25 December 2017.

Photo of Dominic Raab Dominic Raab Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)

Local authorities have duties to ensure that a child is never without a roof over their head.

This Government is taking a number of actions to prevent a homelessness crisis from happening in the first place. This includes:

  • implementing the most ambitious legislative reform in this area in decades, the Homelessness Reduction Act, which will mean children and their families will get the help they need sooner;
  • establishing the Rough Sleeping and Homelessness Reduction Taskforce, to drive forward the implementation of a cross-Government strategy; and

  • allocating over £1 billion to prevent homelessness and rough sleeping through to 2020.

My Department publishes regular statistics on homelessness and rough sleeping which are published at national, London and local authority level. The latest statistics can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics

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