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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Written Statement of 17 January 2017, Homelessness Reduction Bill, HCWS 418, if he will place in the Library the evidential basis used to determine the level of funding to local government to meet the new burden costs associated with the Homelessness Reduction Bill.

A note explaining the methodology and the key assumptions that sit behind the estimate of the new burdens costs of the Homelessness Reduction Bill was sent to local authorities and members of the Bill Committee on 17 January. The same methodology underpins the revised new burdens estimate of £61 million I set out at the Report stage of the Homelessness Reduction Bill on 27 January. A copy of the note will be placed in the Library of the House. The Department will continue to work with the Local Government Association and local authorities on the development of the distribution model for the funding to determine the amount to be received by each area. The full new burdens assessment will be published once this is complete and the Bill is in its final form.