Homelessness: Coronavirus

(asked on 22nd January 2021) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's research entitled Coronavirus (COVID-19) emergency accommodation survey data (November 2020), how many people were offered settled accommodation which was (a) private tenancy, (b) social housing tenancy, (c) longer-term temporary accommodation, (d) accommodation with friends/family, or (e) other.


Answered by
Eddie Hughes Portrait
Eddie Hughes
This question was answered on 27th January 2021

Tackling homelessness and rough sleeping in all its forms is a key priority for this Government and we have taken unprecedented steps to protect vulnerable rough sleepers during the pandemic.

The Department does not hold centrally a breakdown of the data in the format requested. The ‘Everyone In’ campaign has supported around 33,000 people with nearly 10,000 in emergency accommodation and over 23,000 already moved on into longer-term accommodation.

Given the new variant of Covid-19 and the current national lockdown, we are redoubling our efforts to ensure that people who sleep rough are kept as safe as possible and that we do everything we can to protect the NHS. This is backed by £10 million to protect rough sleepers and ensure their wider health needs are addressed.

We have asked all local authorities to ensure that even more rough sleepers are safely accommodated, and will be asking that this opportunity is actively used to make sure that all rough sleepers are registered with a GP where they are not already and are factored into local area vaccination plans, in line with JCVI prioritisation for Covid-19 vaccinations.

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