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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 22 January to Question 123225, on Supported Housing, on what criteria will supported housing services be classified as either short-term or long-term.

Our proposed definition of short-term supported housing is set out in paragraph 53 of the policy statement on Funding Supported Housing, published on 31 October 2017 (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/funding-for-supported-housing). It will be for local authorities to decide whether a scheme meets the definition of short-term supported housing, and is therefore eligible to be funded through the local grant fund.

We continue to work with the sector on proposals for long-term supported housing.