Question follow-through · 97643
Homelessness
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what immediate steps his Department is taking to help reduce levels of homelessness and rough sleeping.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 5 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 16 Dec 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what immediate steps his Department is taking to help reduce levels of homelessness and rough sleeping.
9 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Government has increased funding for homelessness services this year to over £1 billion, including a £50 million top-up to the Homelessness Prevention Grant announced on 11 December 2025. You can find allocations here. We are also investing £3.5 billi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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