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<p>The death of any rough sleeper is a tragedy. That is why this Government has committed
to halve rough sleeping by 2022 and eliminate it altogether by 2027. Establishing
the causes of death for any person in the UK is a matter for medical professionals
or coroners.</p><p>Local areas and homelessness services often hold detailed information
about the people who sleep rough in their area, including about rough sleepers who
have died where this information is available them.</p><p>We are overhauling the statutory
homelessness data collection alongside the introduction of the Homelessness Reduction
Act. This will give us better insights into the causes of homelessness and the support
people need. The new statutory homelessness data collection will be called H-CLIC.</p><p>The
first meeting of the Rough Sleeping and Homelessness Reduction Taskforce took place
on the 7 March. The Taskforce will drive forward the implementation of a cross-Government
strategy to reduce rough sleeping.</p><p>We have allocated over £1 billion through
to 2020 to prevent and reduce all forms of homelessness including piloting a Housing
First approach for some of the most entrenched rough sleepers.</p>
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