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

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the success of their strategy to address homelessness between January 2019 and January 2020.

Because housing is a devolved issue, we would advise you to contact the Northern Ireland authorities for information about temporary accommodation in Northern Ireland.

The Government is clear that no one should be without a roof over their head. That is why we have now committed to end rough sleeping within this Parliament and to fully enforce the Homelessness Reduction Act (HRA).

The latest published statutory homelessness data (April-June 2019) offers promising signs regarding the impact of the HRA:

Under the HRA more households are being offered statutory support, with more single people receiving help than ever before. 65 per cent of households owed a duty were single households, compared to 30 per cent prior to the introduction of the HRA.

Most households at risk of homelessness are having it successfully prevented. 57 per cent of the households whose prevention duty ended in this period secured their existing accommodation or were helped to find alternative accommodation.?40 per cent of the households whose relief duty ended in this period were helped to find accommodation.

Local authorities will now receive an additional £63 million in 2020/21 through the Homelessness Reduction Grant to carry out these duties. This is part of a £437 million package to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over 2020/21.

In addition, the most recent national figures from the Official 2019 Rough Sleeping Snapshot, showed that the?number of people sleeping on our streets on a single night fell for the second year in a row.?The number of those sleeping rough on one night in 2019 was 9 per cent lower than the previous year.??This follows?year-on-year increases prior to 2018.