Question follow-through · 24191
Homelessness: Temporary Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for what reason she has placed a limit on the amount local authorities can spend on temporary accommodation costs from Homelessness Prevention Grant.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 15 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 22 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for what reason she has placed a limit on the amount local authorities can spend on temporary accommodation costs from Homelessness Prevention Grant.
17 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Jan 2025
Answer published
This Government has inherited record levels of temporary accommodation, and we recognise the pressure this has put on councils. The Homelessness Prevention Grant was never intended to meet all of councils’ temporary accommodation costs. Councils can and d...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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