Question follow-through · 94165

Homelessness

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking with the Department of Health and Social Care to reduce the number of people discharged from NHS care into homelessness.

answeredMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tabled
25 Nov 2025
Target answer date
27 Nov 2025
Answer
1 Dec 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 25 Nov 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking with the Department of Health and Social Care to reduce the number of people discharged from NHS care into homelessness.

  2. 27 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 1 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    In January 2024, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and the Department of Health and Social Care published Discharging people at risk of or experiencing homelessness, guidance to help staff plan safe discharges and prevent homelessn...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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