Homelessness

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government written question – answered at on 16 April 2018.

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Photo of Bob Blackman Bob Blackman Conservative, Harrow East

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how he has allocated new burdens funding to local authorities to fulfil the provisions of the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 during the first two years of its implementation.

Photo of Bob Blackman Bob Blackman Conservative, Harrow East

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities, and Local Government, what plans he has to allocate funding to fulfil the provisions of the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 after 2019-20.

Photo of Heather Wheeler Heather Wheeler Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Housing, Communities and Local Government)

The Government published its methodology for calculating and allocating £72.7 million of new burdens funding, on 16 October 2017. It can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/homelessness-reduction-act-new-burdens-funding

The Government has committed to review the implementation of the Act and the level of new burdens funding within two years of the commencement of the Act.

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