Question follow-through · 51474
Supporting People Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a national Supporting People programme.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 12 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 May 2025
- Answer
- 19 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Communities and local government
- Homelessness: Young People · 14 May 2025
- Temporary Accommodation · 15 May 2025
- Rented Housing: Housing Improvement · 14 Jul 2025
- Housing: Students · 29 Aug 2025
- Homelessness: Women · 2 Feb 2026
Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
Recorded timeline
12 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a national Supporting People programme.
14 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 May 2025
Answer published
Local authorities are best placed to decide how their funding is spent locally. The Government has a delivered a Settlement that begins to fix the foundations of local government by providing significant investment redirecting funding towards the services...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
Homelessness: Young People
14 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to involve young people with lived experience of homelessness in the development of the cross-departmental homelessness strategy.
Temporary Accommodation
15 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to reduce reliance on temporary accommodation.
Rented Housing: Housing Improvement
14 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 17 April 2025 to Question 41589 Rented Housing: Housing Improvement, whether the First-tier Tribunal takes account of a landlord’s declaration when dete
Housing: Students
29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to help improve the quality of student accommodation.
Homelessness: Women
2 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has had discussions with local authorities on levels of female homelessness.
Sleeping Rough: Women
2 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if his Department will take steps to review the national definition of rough sleeping to help ensure it reflects the different ways women experience homelessness.
Sleeping Rough: Women
2 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what work his Department is doing to help improve data collection on the number of women rough sleeping and to adopt a gender-informed methodology for measuring rough sleeping.
Homelessness: Older People
10 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of trends in the number of people over 65 owed a statutory homelessness prevention and relief duty by local authorities in England since July 2024.
Homelessness: Older People
10 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to help ensure local authorities design local homelessness support services that meet the needs of older people when they experience homelessness.
UK Shared Prosperity Fund
12 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the closure of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund on the capacity of the voluntary and community sector to support p
UK Shared Prosperity Fund
12 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his department has made of the potential impact of the closure of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund on the capacity of the voluntary and community sector to support y
UK Shared Prosperity Fund
12 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has had discussions with Cabinet colleagues on bridging funding for voluntary and community organisations following the closure of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.