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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the Salvation Army's services for rough sleepers in York in engaging with people as a first step into support services.

The City of York has been allocated over £1.3 million over the three years of the Rough Sleeping Initiative 2022-25. All local authorities, including York, had the opportunity to coproduce their application to the Rough Sleeping Initiative with one of the Department's specialist rough sleeping advisers.

Officials and specialist rough sleeping advisers are in regular contact with the City of York, to support development, delivery and effectiveness of the local authority's plans and response to tackling rough sleeping locally.