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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether there is a cross-departmental plan on housing, health, social security and work policies to ensure a coordinated approach to assist people who are sleeping rough.

The Government has committed to halve rough sleeping by 2022 and eliminate it altogether by 2027.

To achieve this, we have established the Rough Sleeping and Homelessness Reduction Taskforce which will drive forward the implementation of a cross-Government strategy with an initial focus on rough sleeping.

The Taskforce will have a clear agenda to prevent and reduce rough sleeping and homelessness, driving action across both national and local government, other public services and the voluntary and private sectors.