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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities, and Local Government, what plans he has to allocate funding to fulfil the provisions of the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 after 2019-20.

The Government published its methodology for calculating and allocating £72.7 million of new burdens funding, on 16 October 2017. It can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/homelessness-reduction-act-new-burdens-funding

The Government has committed to review the implementation of the Act and the level of new burdens funding within two years of the commencement of the Act.