Question follow-through · 110106
Sleeping Rough: Women
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.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 2 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 9 Feb 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Feb 2026
Question tabled
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.
9 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Feb 2026
Answer published
The government recognises that women experiencing homelessness and rough sleeping have different experiences and needs to men.In November 2025 the government published the Rough Sleeping Questionnaire deep dive on women’s homelessness. This can be found o...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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