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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 29 March 2017 to Question 69065, on sleeping rough, in what areas the Government plans to spend the £550 million to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping.

We are spending over £550 million to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping in England by 2020 following the 2015 Spending Review. This includes protecting £315 million homelessness prevention funding that goes to local authorities.

We also increased central government funding for homelessness programmes to £149 million, which includes £50 million for the Homelessness Prevention Programme to deliver an end-to-end approach to prevention and £61 million to implement the Homelessness Reduction Bill and support local authorities with new burdens.

In addition, we are spending £100 million to deliver at least 2,000 low-cost move-on accommodation places, to enable people leaving hostels and refuges to make a sustainable recovery from a homelessness crisis.