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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will expand the clearing house scheme of housing for people with a history of rough sleeping.

The Government is committed to finding a way to provide additional, coordinated move-on accommodation for rough sleepers, building on the existing 3,750 ‘clearing house’ places which are already provided by housing associations in London. The Department is working with the National Housing Federation to explore the possibility of extending this London-based scheme nationally.