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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent steps he has taken to help people living in supported housing; and whether his Department monitors how councils commission housing providers.

The Government is committed to ensuring all supported housing residents receive good quality support and accommodation. We are supporting the Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Bill which will introduce national standards for supported housing and local authority led licensing schemes.

We are also investing £20 million in the Supported Housing Improvement Programme to drive up quality in the supported housing sector in some of the worst affected areas, while we develop regulatory measures.

The Department does not routinely monitor how councils commission housing providers.