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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to improve support for people who sleep rough who are non-UK nationals.

No one should ever have to sleep rough, regardless of background or nationality. That is why we have committed to halving rough sleeping by 2022 and ending it by 2027.

On the 13 August 2018 the government published the Rough Sleeping Strategy in which we laid out a number of new interventions to improve support for non-UK nationals who sleep rough. This includes:

• additional training for frontline staff;
• an additional Home Office Rough Sleeping Support team to support and resolve the immigration status of non-UK national rough sleepers; and
• a £5 million fund to help local areas support non-UK nationals off the streets.

These interventions compliment the £100 million Controlling Migration Fund, which has already supported a number of projects to help non-UK nationals away from the street and is currently open to further bids from local authorities.

The Rough Sleeping Strategy is published here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/733421/Rough-Sleeping-Strategy_WEB.pdf