Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of immediate emergency rough sleeping interventions; and what steps she is taking to ensure local authorities are adequately resourced to provide emergency accommodation during periods of acute demand.

This Government inherited a homelessness and rough sleeping crisis - between 2010 and 2025, the number of people sleeping rough increased by 171%. On his first day in office, the Prime Minister launched an urgent national drive to end rough sleeping at the earliest opportunity. We are providing £874 million new funding to local areas to ensure that everyone who needs it is offered a route off the streets before Christmas this year which will continue beyond this winter thanks to new funding announced at Budget, while providing longer-term accommodation and support for people with the most complex and long-term experiences of rough sleeping.

These measures build on the Government's wider action to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping, including the commitments set out in A National Plan to End Homelessness. This takes total investment in homelessness and rough sleeping services over the next three years to more than £4.4 billion.

Further details on the Government's most recent measures are set out in the Written Ministerial Statement of 1 September 2026 (HCWS300).