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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many families and individuals have become homeless in (a) Camberwell and Peckham, (b)Southwark and (c) London as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.

The causes of homelessness are multiple and complex. The Government has taken comprehensive action to prevent people getting into financial hardship through extending the furlough scheme to April, and boosting the welfare safety net by billions of pounds. We have also established an unprecedented package of support to protect renters. This includes legislating through the Coronavirus Act 2020 to delay when landlords can evict tenants, a 6 month stay on possession proceedings in court and a pause on bailiffs enforcing eviction notices.

Relevant homelessness data can be found here, the most recent being published as recently as 28 January: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics.