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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans his Department has to record the number of street homeless veterans.

In April 2018, my Department introduced Homelessness Case Level Information Collection (H-CLIC). H-CLIC captures information on all those who engage with local authority homelessness services, including support need resulting from being in the armed forces.

In addition, the Combined Homelessness and Information Network (CHAIN) is a multi-agency database which records information, including former armed forces service, about people seen rough sleeping by outreach teams in London across the year.

There are?a number of?existing support services available to?veterans who are experiencing, or are at risk of, homelessness. This includes the?Veterans Gateway, an online web and telephone resource for?veterans, providing access to a housing specialist who has up-to-date information regarding vacancies.