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1147871

registered interest
date	02/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Social Rented Housing: Domestic Abuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions he has had with the Minister for Women and Equalities on the barriers survivors of domestic abuse face when trying to access local authority housing.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	293449
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>Officials from my Department hold regular discussions with counterparts in the Government Equalities Office on a range of issues, including on tackling domestic abuse.</p><p>In November 2018 we issued new statutory guidance for local authorities to improve access to social housing by victims of domestic abuse who are in a refuge or other form of safe temporary accommodation: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F753667%2FImproving_access_to_social_housing_for_victims_of_domestic_abuse.pdf&amp;data=02%7C01%7CFrances.Walker%40communities.gov.uk%7Cf6f0d999d32544951f6708d747e702f1%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637056929815139995&amp;sdata=Fq6lPicNQye4Kwq0ielC6gC%2BhRC1vjC92U1hTbiM87s%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/753667/Improving_access_to_social_housing_for_victims_of_domestic_abuse.pdf</a></p><p>The guidance makes clear that local authorities are expected not to apply residency tests for those victims who have fled to another district, sets out how they can give appropriate priority to victims, and encourages them to use their existing powers to support victims to remain safely in their homes if they choose to do so.</p><p>The Domestic Abuse Bill includes provisions to ensure that, where local authorities grant a new tenancy to a victim of domestic abuse who has or had a lifetime tenancy, the new tenancy must be a further lifetime tenancy.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 07/10/2019 16:14:15 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1147923

registered interest
date	02/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Welfare Assistance Schemes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information his Department holds on the amount of money people have received out of local welfare assistance schemes in each local authority area since 2013.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	293441
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>Since 2015-16 Local Welfare Provision funding has been rolled into Revenue Support Grant. This decision was made to further simplify and decentralise funding, because local authorities know better how to make good local decisions to help vulnerable people</p><p><br>The Ministry does not give local authorities specific direction about what to spend revenue support grant on. Local authorities are open to spend non ringfenced funding as they see fit to meet local priorities, and are accountable to their local electorate for their spending. However, we do publish data on total expenditure on Local Welfare Assistance Schemes by each local authority, which is available through the link below in each year to 2017/18.</p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Flocal-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing&amp;data=02%7C01%7CGrace.Death%40communities.gov.uk%7C0e469d514fa9467e19e508d74b23f91b%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637060490179823743&amp;sdata=lw3mOsC8Z2Ro1TAckvqPAzfS1JYs5yINbJ3UMUquAYg%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing.</a></p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 07/10/2019 16:13:25 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1147947

registered interest
date	02/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Refuges: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps the Government is taking to fund women’s refuges.
tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
uin	293588
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>Since 2014 the Department has invested £55.5 million in services to support victims of domestic abuse, including refuges.</p><p>MHCLG recently consulted on a new statutory duty which would require local authorities to assess the need for and commission support for victims and their children in safe accommodation.</p><p>The consultation closed on 2 August. We have analysed the responses to the consultation on support within safe accommodation and will be publishing a full government response in due course.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 07/10/2019 15:38:08 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery

1147957

registered interest
date	02/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Homelessness: Death
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Office for National Statistics report showing a 22 per cent rise in the deaths of homeless people in 2018, what plans his Department has to prevent the deaths of homeless people and rough sleepers.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	293669
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>The government is committed to halving rough sleeping by 2022, before ending it altogether and has now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review period to April 2020.</p><p>In the recent Spending Round, we announced £422 million funding for homelessness in 2020/21, an increase of £54 million.</p><p>The government changed the law and the Homelessness Reduction Act (HRA), which is the most ambitious legislation in this area in decades, came into force on 3 April 2018.  The HRA requires councils to provide early support for those at risk of having nowhere left to go. The government is also boosting access to affordable housing and making renting more secure.</p><p>We also recognise the challenges that the cold weather poses for those who are sleeping rough. On 12 September 2019, we launched a second year of the Cold Weather Fund. This £10 million fund will be available to all local authorities in England to provide a robust, local response to support as many rough sleepers as possible off the streets during the winter period. This is double the funding made available last winter. Local authorities will be able to access this funding until March 2020.</p><p>Whilst we recognise that suitable housing is a key part of the solution, health services have a significant role to play, alongside other public services. The Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government is working with the Department of Health and Social Care to ensure that rough sleepers have the health care they need, when they need it. This includes several commitments that were made in the Rough Sleeping Strategy, such as:</p><ul><li>rapid audit of health service provision to rough sleepers, including mental health and substance misuse treatment ;</li><li>committing £30 million for mental health services from NHS England for rough sleeping over the next five years ;</li><li>providing up to £2 million in health funding to test models of community-based provision designed to enable access to health and support services for people who are sleeping rough, and;</li><li>working with Safeguarding Adult Boards to ensure that Safeguarding Adult Reviews happen where appropriate. Lessons learned from these reviews will inform improvements in local systems and services.</li></ul><p>Professor Dame Carol Black has been appointed to carry out a major review of drug misuse. The review, which is building on existing government strategies to combat drugs, serious violence and serious and organised crime, is examining the harms that drugs cause and the best ways to prevent drug-taking.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 07/10/2019 16:11:50 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1147958

registered interest
date	02/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Homelessness: Death
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of homeless deaths in 2018 attributable to substance misuse; and what representations his Department has made to the Department of Health and Social Care on drug and alcohol support for homeless people and rough sleepers.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	293670
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>It should not happen that people die prematurely  because they are homeless.</p><p>The recent ONS statistics emphasise the devastating impact of substance and alcohol misuse. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) is working with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to ensure that rough sleepers have the health care they need, when they need it. This includes several commitments that were made in the Rough Sleeping Strategy, such as:</p><ul><li>rapid audit of health service provision to rough sleepers, including mental health and substance misuse treatment ;</li><li>£2 million to test community-based models of access to health services for rough sleepers, including mental health and substance misuse services ;</li><li>new training for front-line workers to help them support rough sleepers under the influence of New Psychoactive Substances such as spice, and;</li><li>working with the Home Office to ensure rough sleepers are considered in the forthcoming Alcohol Strategy, which will focus on vulnerable people .</li></ul><p>My Department will continue to work with colleagues in the DHSC, Public Health England and the Home Office, including through the forthcoming independent review of drugs policy. Professor Dame Carol Black has been appointed to carry out this major review of drug misuse. The review, which is building on existing government strategies to combat drugs, serious violence and serious and organised crime, is examining the harms that drugs cause and the best ways to prevent drug-taking.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 07/10/2019 15:10:08 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1147959

registered interest
date	02/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Homelessness: Alcoholic Drinks and Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to improve drug and alcohol support for homeless people and rough sleepers.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	293671
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>The government is committed to halving rough sleeping by 2022, before ending it altogether and has now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review period to April 2020.</p><p>Whilst we recognise that suitable housing is a key part of the solution, health services have a significant role to play, alongside other public services. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) is working with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to ensure that rough sleepers have the health care they need, when the need it. This includes several commitments that were made in the Rough Sleeping Strategy, such as:</p><ul><li>rapid audit of health service provision to rough sleepers, including mental health and substance misuse treatment;</li><li>providing up to £2 million in health funding to test models of community-based provision designed to enable access to health and support services for people who are sleeping rough;</li><li>new training for front-line workers to help them support rough sleepers under the influence of New Psychoactive Substances such as spice, and;</li><li>working with the Home Office to ensure rough sleepers are considered in the forthcoming Alcohol Strategy, which will focus on vulnerable people.</li></ul><p>We are continuing to work with colleagues in the DHSC, Public Health England and the Home Office on this issue, including through the forthcoming independent review of drugs policy, led by Professor Dame Carol Black.</p><p>At the start of September, the Chancellor announced the Spending Round outcome for the next financial year (2020/21). MHCLG secured £422 million funding for homelessness in 2020/21, an increase of £54 million. The Chancellor also announced an increase in the level of funding for the public health grant to bring it back up to the same level as last year. This means local authorities can continue to invest in prevention and essential front-line health services.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 07/10/2019 15:06:45 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1147960

registered interest
date	02/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Homelessness: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of healthcare provision for homeless people and rough sleepers.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	293672
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>The government is committed to halving rough sleeping by 2022, before ending it altogether and has now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review period to April 2020.</p><p>Whilst we recognise that suitable housing is a key part of the solution, health services have a significant role to play, alongside other public services. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) is working with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to ensure that rough sleepers have the health care they need, when the need it. This includes several commitments that were made in the Rough Sleeping Strategy, such as:</p><ul><li>rapid audit of health service provision to rough sleepers, including mental health and substance misuse treatment;</li><li>providing up to £2 million in health funding to test models of community-based provision designed to enable access to health and support services for people who are sleeping rough;</li><li>new training for front-line workers to help them support rough sleepers under the influence of New Psychoactive Substances such as spice, and;</li><li>working with the Home Office to ensure rough sleepers are considered in the forthcoming Alcohol Strategy, which will focus on vulnerable people.</li></ul><p>We are continuing to work with colleagues in the DHSC, Public Health England and the Home Office on this issue, including through the forthcoming independent review of drugs policy, led by Professor Dame Carol Black.</p><p>At the start of September, the Chancellor announced the Spending Round outcome for the next financial year (2020/21). MHCLG secured £422 million funding for homelessness in 2020/21, an increase of £54 million. The Chancellor also announced an increase in the level of funding for the public health grant to bring it back up to the same level as last year. This means local authorities can continue to invest in prevention and essential front-line health services.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 07/10/2019 15:19:01 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1147988

registered interest
date	02/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Media: Muslims
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Integrated Communities Action Plan published in February 2019, whether his Department has facilitated meetings between the Anti-Muslim Hatred Working Group and Independent Press Standards Organisation to help them to develop guidance for editors and journalists to tackle unnecessary negative portrayals of Muslims in the media.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	293516
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 08/10/2019 15:46:42 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall previous answer version 137916 answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1147542

registered interest
date	01/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Homelessness: Death
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps the Government taking to reduce the number of homeless people that die while living on the street.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	292827
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>The government is committed to halving rough sleeping by 2022, before ending it altogether and has now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review period to April 2020.</p><p>In the recent Spending Round we announced £422 million funding for homelessness in 2020/21, an increase of £54 million.</p><p>The government changed the law and the Homelessness Reduction Act (HRA), which is the most ambitious legislation in this area in decades, came into force this April. The HRA requires councils to provide early support for those at risk of having nowhere left to go. The government is also boosting access to affordable housing, and making renting more secure.</p><p>We also recognise the challenges that the cold weather poses for those who are sleeping rough. On 12 September 2019, we launched a second year of the Cold Weather Fund. This £10 million fund will be available to all local authorities in England to provide a robust, local response to support as many rough sleepers as possible off the streets during the winter period. This is double the funding made available last winter. Local authorities will be able to access this funding until March 2020.</p><p>Whilst we recognise that suitable housing is a key part of the solution, health services have a significant role to play, alongside other public services. MHCLG is working with the DHSC to ensure that rough sleepers have the health care they need, when the need it. This includes several commitments that were made in the Rough Sleeping Strategy, such as:</p><ul><li>committing £30 million for mental health services from NHS England for rough sleeping over the next five years</li><li>providing up to £2 million in health funding to test models of community-based provision designed to enable access to health and support services for people who are sleeping rough.</li><li>working with Safeguarding Adult Boards to ensure that Safeguarding Adult Reviews where appropriate. Lessons learned from these reviews will inform improvements in local systems and services.</li></ul><p>Professor Dame Carol Black has been appointed to carry out a major review of drug misuse. The review, which is building on existing government strategies to combat drugs, serious violence and serious and organised crime, is examining the harms that drugs cause and the best ways to prevent drug-taking.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 07/10/2019 15:57:06 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1147543

registered interest
date	01/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Homelessness: Death
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to ensure that the trend in the level of deaths of homeless people is investigated.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	292828
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>The government is committed to halving rough sleeping by 2022, before ending it altogether and has now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review period to April 2020.</p><p>In the recent Spending Round we announced £422 million funding for homelessness in 2020/21, an increase of £54 million.</p><p>Whilst we recognise that suitable housing is a key part of the solution, health services have a significant role to play, alongside other public services. The Ministry for Housing Communities and Local Government is working with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to ensure that rough sleepers have the health care they need, when the need it. These commitments include:<br></p><ul><li>working with Safeguarding Adult Boards to ensure that Safeguarding Adult Reviews (SAR) happen where appropriate. Lessons learned from these reviews will inform improvements in local systems and services.</li><li>the DHSC has commissioned King’s College London to conduct a thematic review of the national SAR library on rough sleeping cases. Findings have recently been published and are being disseminated</li></ul><ul><li>the DHSC has funded the Local Government Association (LGA) to deliver four national events in autumn 2019/20 to look at safeguarding and homelessness.</li><li>committing £30 million for mental health services from NHS England for rough sleeping over the next five years</li><li>providing up to £2 million in health funding to test models of community-based provision designed to enable access to health and support services for people who are sleeping rough.</li></ul><p>Professor Dame Carol Black has been appointed to carry out a major review of drug misuse. The review, which is building on existing government strategies to combat drugs, serious violence and serious and organised crime, is examining the harms that drugs cause and the best ways to prevent drug-taking.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 07/10/2019 15:15:59 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham