Homelessness

(asked on 30th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of resources available to local authorities to fulfil the additional duties placed on them under the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017.


Answered by
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Marcus Jones
Treasurer of HM Household (Deputy Chief Whip, House of Commons)
This question was answered on 7th November 2017

The Homelessness Reduction Act requires local authorities to carry out additional duties to prevent and relieve homelessness and to intervene earlier to prevent homelessness.

The Government committed to fund the Act in line with the longstanding ‘new burdens’ doctrine. We announced funding of £61 million in January 2017 and, following further discussions with local authorities on the new duties, have provided an additional £11.7 million. This takes the total amount of new burdens funding to £72.7 million.

A new burdens assessment has been completed and can be found at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/homelessness-reduction-act-new-burdens-funding

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