Rough Sleeping and Good Growth Funds Debate
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Catherine Atkinson
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Rough Sleeping and Good Growth Funds
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Madam Deputy Speaker (Judith Cummins)
Order. I want to get in as many Members as I can on this statement, so can we have shorter questions and shorter answers, please?
Catherine Atkinson (Derby North) (Lab)
I welcome today’s additional £432 million to tackle rough sleeping. With reoffending accounting for 80% of offending in England and Wales, securing stable accommodation on release from prison is absolutely central to reducing reoffending and making our communities safer, yet last year around 1,000 people a month left prison homeless. Will the Minister work with the MOJ to use this investment to go beyond the target of halving homelessness among prison leavers? As we seek to accelerate progress on preventing homelessness, I am concerned that the Ministry intends to replace quarterly accommodation figures with annual reporting, so will the Minister press for quarterly publication to continue to be tracked?