Veterans: Sleeping Rough

(asked on 9th February 2022) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to Veterans’ Strategy Action Plan 2022-24, what funding will be allocated to end veteran rough sleeping within this Parliament.


Answered by
Eddie Hughes Portrait
Eddie Hughes
This question was answered on 22nd February 2022

The government is committed to ending rough sleeping, including veteran rough sleeping, and we are spending £2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the next three years. Our veterans play a vital role in keeping our country safe and we are committed to ensuring that they are provided with all the support they need to successfully adjust back into civilian life.

We are providing local areas with the support and funding they need to provide tailored support to respond to the needs of those sleeping rough in their areas, including where some may have served in the Armed Forces. Through the Rough Sleeping Initiative, we have provided over £200 million this year to local authorities to make sure they can continue to provide tailored local interventions for rough sleepers in their area.

The key objective of the Rough Sleeping Accommodation Programme (RSAP), backed by £433 million, is to provide 6,000 move-on homes and accompanying support services to those who are rough sleeping, or who have a history of sleeping rough, including veterans.

Through the Homelessness Case Level Information Collection (H-CLIC), the Department collects data on the support needs of households owed a prevention or relief duty, including if they have served in Her Majesty’s Forces. H-CLIC also collects the number of people homeless on departure from Armed Forces Accommodation.

HCLIC Data shows that for the year 2020-21, 1,730 veterans were owed a homelessness duty out of the 268,560 total households who were homeless or at risk of homelessness. This is down from 1,920 households in 2019-20. We will continue to monitor this data carefully.

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