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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much funding his Department has allocated to Southampton for schemes to tackle homelessness since 2010.

This Government is committed to ensuring everyone has a home and we are taking unprecedented action to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping. Therefore, over £1.2 billion in funding has now been allocated through to 2020 to reduce homelessness and rough sleeping.

Since 2010, the Government has allocated £6,002,487 to Southampton as part of its homelessness prevention and rough sleeping programmes.