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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the success of district councils on implementing the Everyone In campaign in the early stages of the covid-19 outbreak.

Councils have made a tremendous effort working with their local partners to support those experiencing rough sleeping throughout the pandemic and I would like to thank them wholeheartedly for their efforts.

The Annual Rough Sleeping Snapshot for 2020 published on 25 February showed there were 2,688 people estimated to be sleeping rough on a single night in autumn 2020, which is a 37% decrease from the previous year.

Our work to support people off the streets and protect the most vulnerable from COVID-19 continues and we are committed to ending rough sleeping for good. The Government is spending more than £800 million to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping this year alone.