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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the proposals contained in the consultation document Funding Supported Housing: Policy Statement and Consultation, published in October 3017, what steps he is taking to ensure that an individual’s entitlement for help with their housing costs through (a) housing benefit and (b) the housing cost element of universal credit will be unchanged.

As stated in the Funding Supported Housing: Policy Statement and Consultation published on 31 October 2017, an individual’s entitlement for help with their housing costs (through Housing Benefit or the housing cost element of Universal Credit) remains unchanged. Housing costs will be covered by the short-term accommodation grant so there will not be any eligible housing costs.