Question follow-through · 28477
Homelessness: Taxis
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much her Department has spent on taxi expenses for homeless people in the last 12 months.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 4 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 6 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 12 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
- Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 · 8 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
4 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much her Department has spent on taxi expenses for homeless people in the last 12 months.
6 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Feb 2025
Answer published
The Homelessness Prevention Grant (HPG) is allocated to councils across England based on local homelessness pressures and is used to meet local needs.HPG funding allocations for the period 2023 through 2025 are available online and can be accessed via the...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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