Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask His Majesty's Government, in light of the press release New PM says government can bring back hope to Britain, and launches drive to end rough sleeping at the earliest opportunity, published on 20 July, whether additional funding has been allocated to the MHCLG budget over and above (1) its existing spending review settlement, and (2) planned homelessness funding; what is the profile of the announced £340 million funding in each individual year; and whether any other programmes have been reprofiled or deprioritised to finance the rough sleeping programme.

The Spending Review 2025 set MHCLG’s departmental budgets until 2028-29 for resource spending and 2029-30 for capital investment. No additional funding has been allocated to MHCLG beyond that settlement for this announcement. We have already provided record levels of funding to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping. The £340 million is from within existing MHCLG budgets that had not yet been committed to specific spending plans. This means that the announcement does not require the reprofiling or reprioritisation of programmes already underway. The profile of the £340 million will be finalised in due course.