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1239249

	registered interest
	date	30/09/2020
	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: Closures
	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 women's refuges that have closed since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
	tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
	uin	97593
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/10/2020 answer text <p>Government does not hold this data centrally. Local authorities make local commissioning decisions based on their specific local needs.</p><p>Government recognises the support that refuges provide for victims of domestic abuse and their children. During 2020/21 we have funded 166 organisations, providing almost 1900 bed spaces for victims and their children, through our £10 million domestic abuse COVID-19 emergency funding.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 05/10/2020 16:03:20 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher

1249621

	registered interest
	date	09/11/2020
	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	Temporary Accommodation: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many families with children were housed in temporary accommodation for more than (a) six months, (b) one year and (c) two years in (i) Coventry, (ii) the West Midlands and (iii) England in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
	tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
	uin	113125
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2020 answer text <p>The Department does not currently publish information on the duration of households in temporary accommodation.</p><p>Related published statistics can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistical-data-sets%2Flive-tables-on-homelessness&amp;data=04%7C01%7CParliamentary%40communities.gov.uk%7Ca0e4f1e5e6a246250da808d88724f45a%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637407940066616432%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=Lshe4M0lPxBTlSzv6ErwSKegh8VKbc8TtgLUfjt7FGg%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 12/11/2020 16:33:24 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher

1249620

	registered interest
	date	09/11/2020
	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: Pregnancy
	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 recent estimate he has made of the number of pregnant women who are homeless in (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) England.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
	tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
	uin	113124
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2020 answer text <p>In the quarter April – June 2020, national homelessness data shows that, of households assessed as unintentionally homeless and owed a main duty by priority need, the following numbers of households included a pregnant woman:</p><p>1. 10 in Coventry</p><p>2. 60 in the West Midlands</p><p>3. 480 in England</p><p>The Homelessness Reduction Act, the most ambitious reform to homelessness legislation in decades, came into force in April 2018. It means that local authorities and other public bodies must work together to actively prevent homelessness for people at risk. Local authorities must do so irrespective of whether they are a family or single person, the reason they are at risk, or if they have a local connection to the area.</p><p>Pregnant women are in priority need for housing assistance. This means that if a local authority is satisfied that a household which includes a pregnant woman has become homeless through no fault of their own and are eligible for assistance, they have a duty to place them into accommodation.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 12/11/2020 16:33:05 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher

1248821

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2020
	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: Mental Health
	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 recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on the effect of long-term homelessness on mental health.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
	tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
	uin	111546
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2020 answer text <p>We know that the causes of homelessness are multiple and complex and that this is not solely a housing issue. Many individuals experiencing homelessness have co-occurring mental health and substance misuse support needs.</p><p>During the pandemic, we have worked closely with local authorities, local health partnerships and the homelessness sector to offer vulnerable people safe accommodation and support. That work is ongoing and in September we had successfully supported over 29,000 people, with 10,000 in emergency accommodation and nearly 19,000 provided with settled accommodation or move on support.</p><p>This support includes working closely with Public Health England and NHS England to ensure that arrangements are in place so that individuals’ health and care needs can be met, including ensuring that they are registered with GPs and that mental health assessments are carried out where appropriate.</p><p>More broadly, the Department for Health and Social Care is delivering £30 million to 2023/24 from NHS England in the Long Term Plan to fund up to 20 areas for specialist mental health services for people sleeping rough.</p><p>MHCLG continues to work closely with the DHSC to work to better understand how we can support the mental health needs of this vulnerable group.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 12/11/2020 16:34:13 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher

1247141

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2020
	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	Urban Areas: Coronavirus
	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 cost to the public purse of steps his Department has taken to support high streets during the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
	tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
	uin	109404
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2020 answer text <p>High streets are critical to the economic recovery of our towns and cities and the £50 million Reopening High Streets Safely Fund (RHSSF) is playing an important role in getting people back to work, supporting high street businesses and helping to reinvigorate our local communities.</p><p>The RHSSF is in addition to Government’s unprecedented package of support for business, including more than £11 billion delivered under the Small Business Grants Fund (SBGF) and the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grants Fund (RHLGF) to over 897,590 business premises in England. In addition, up to £617 million was made available via the Local Authority Discretionary Grants Fund (LADGF) to support thousands more businesses.</p><p>This funding builds on longer-term funds already in place to support the revival of our high streets and town centres, including the £3.6 billion Towns Fund and the Future High Streets Fund competition. As part of this, we have brought forward £81.5 million from the Towns Fund for investment into capital projects that would have an immediate impact as we work to recover from Covid-19.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 09/11/2020 15:03:22 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher