Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what type of accommodation for homeless people will meet the threshold for safety set out in his Department's guidance entitled Covid-19: provision of night shelters.
We have worked extensively with Public Health England (PHE) to provide Operating Principles for the sector to help them open shelters as safely as possible where necessary, when self-contained accommodation cannot be made available and when local partners agree that it is the right thing to do.
The type of accommodation to which these principles refer is clearly set out within the guidance, this can be found online at: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/covid-19-provision-of-night-shelters.