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922305

	registered interest
	date	12/06/2018
	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	Victim Support 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, which other government departments were (a) consulted on and (b) involved in developing his Department’s independent external audit of domestic abuse services.
	tabling member constituency	Rotherham
	tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	152785
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2018 answer text <p>During the development of our independent external audit of domestic abuse services, we consulted with a number of Government departments which play a key role in domestic abuse and/or victims policy. We have worked with the Home Office, Ministry of Justice, Department for Health, Department for Education and the Government Equalities Office, all of which have been instrumental in helping us develop a robust and comprehensive audit. We also hope to work closely with departments which have an extended interest in the review, such as the Department for Work and Pensions and HM Treasury, as we progress with this work.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 19/06/2018 15:45:38 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
	tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

922306

	registered interest
	date	12/06/2018
	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	Victim Support 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, pursuant to the Answer of 29 May 2018 to Question 146873, on victim support schemes, which other government departments have been (a) consulted on and (b) involved in his Department’s full review of domestic abuse services.
	tabling member constituency	Rotherham
	tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	152786
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2018 answer text <p>The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has consulted with a number of Government Departments which play a key role in domestic abuse and/or victims policy. We have worked with the Home Office, Ministry of Justice, Department for Health, Department for Education and the Government Equalities Office, all of which have been instrumental in helping us develop a robust and comprehensive audit. We also hope to work closely with Departments which have an extended interest in the review, such as the Department for Work and Pensions and HM Treasury, as we progress with this work.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 19/06/2018 15:46:56 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
	tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

922478

	registered interest
	date	12/06/2018
	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: Havering
	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 much it is planned for the London Borough of Havering to receive as part of the additional £30 million available for the Homelessness Prevention Programme.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	152680
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2018 answer text <p>On 11 June, the Secretary of State announced the allocations for the £30 million Rough Sleeping Initiative fund. The London Borough of Havering will receive £85,000 for the remaining 2018/19 financial period to tackle rough sleeping. All allocations were published on gov.uk: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/james-brokenshire-announces-30-million-immediate-support-for-rough-sleepers" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/james-brokenshire-announces-30-million-immediate-support-for-rough-sleepers</a></p><p>This will fund a housing led initiative to expand the move-on accommodation available for rough sleepers with complex needs, alongside increasing staff to support rough sleepers and to deliver personalised accommodation and support plans.</p><p>They will be supported to deliver this work by the multi-disciplinary Rough Sleeping Initiative team.</p><p>Further funding for the 19/20 period will be announced in due course.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 19/06/2018 15:47:58 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

923529

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2018
	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 is taking to tackle the number of homeless people dying.
	tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
	tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	153309
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2018 answer text <p>The death of any homeless person is a tragedy. One person without a home is one too many and we are determined to tackle this issue, which is why this Government has committed to halve rough sleeping by 2022 and end it by 2027.</p><p>In order to achieve this target I will be publishing a Rough Sleeping Strategy this July. As part of this work my Department has established the Rough Sleeping Advisory Panel and a cross-Government Taskforce. By drawing upon the knowledge of the Panel and the support from across Whitehall, the strategy will not only end rough sleeping by 2027, but in the meantime ensure the right support is provided to prevent rough sleepers dying on our streets.</p><p>We have recently allocated £30 million that will be used to provide an additional 1,750 bed spaces for rough sleepers and an additional 531 dedicated homelessness workers ahead of next winter.</p><p>Furthermore, the Government recently implemented the most ambitious legislative reform in this area in decades, the Homelessness Reduction Act, which will mean that more people will get the help they need sooner.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 20/06/2018 16:08:38 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
	tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

923546

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2018
	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	Domestic Abuse: Victim Support 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, how much funding his Department has allocated to supporting victims of domestic violence per capita in each year since 2008.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	153318
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2018 answer text <p>Domestic abuse is a devastating crime which blights the lives of its victims that nobody should have to suffer.</p><p>The Department does not hold information on funding per capita.</p><p>Since 2014 we have invested £33.5 million in services that support victims of domestic. Our £10 million fund to local authorities in the 2014-2016 period helped 148 local authorities strengthen refuge provision for victims and offer support to women from outside their own area.</p><p>In the 2015-2016 period the Department’s £3.5 million domestic abuse fund supported 46 local authorities and their partners to deliver 710 new bed spaces for 3,798 victims of domestic abuse.</p><p>The Department's £20 million two year fund covering 2016-2018 supported 80 projects across the country, creating more than 2,000 bed spaces and giving support to over 19,000 victims and their families. Furthermore, 77 projects took up our offer of a share of the £1.1 million top up funding and received their funding allocations on 22 March 2018.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 20/06/2018 14:12:36 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
	tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

924121

	registered interest
	date	14/06/2018
	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: Refugees
	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 local authorities provide adequate support for newly-recognised refugees to prevent them becoming homeless.
	tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
	tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	153848
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2018 answer text <p>No one should ever have to sleep rough and this Government is determined to break the homelessness cycle once and for all.</p><p>The Government will release a strategy in July which will lay out how we will meet our commitment to halve rough sleeping by 2020 and end it altogether by 2027.</p><p>To meet this commitment, we will need adequate support for all of those at risk, which is why on 8 June my Department announced £1.75 million to help new refugees, by funding 35 officers in 19 areas with some of the highest numbers of asylum seekers. The officers will support people granted asylum into housing, education and work.</p><p>We will use the evidence gathered from this work to inform future provision for this cohort, and to ensure that no-one leaves Government supported accommodation with nowhere to stay.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 20/06/2018 16:09:15 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
	tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

923530

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2018
	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	Sleeping Rough: Temporary Accommodation
	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 assessment he has made of the availability of emergency accommodation for people sleeping rough.
	tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
	tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	153310
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2018 answer text <p>Rough sleeping is dangerous and no one should ever have to sleep rough. The Government is building a country that is fit for the future which cares for the most vulnerable in our society. We remain committed halving rough sleeping over the course of this parliament and ending it by 2027, ensuring everyone has a roof over their head and receives all the support they need to rebuild their lives.</p><p>Homeless Link conducts an annual survey of the capacity, support and services available to people who become homeless in England, including emergency accommodation, which is available online: <a href="https://www.homeless.org.uk/facts/our-research/annual-review-of-single-homelessness-support-in-england" target="_blank">https://www.homeless.org.uk/facts/our-research/annual-review-of-single-homelessness-support-in-england</a></p><p>Through our Rough Sleeping Initiative we have been working closely with 83 local authorities, looking at existing provision and proposals to boost the immediate support available to people living on the streets and help them into accommodation. The £30 million fund will be used to provide an additional 1,750 additional bed spaces for rough sleepers and an additional 531 dedicated homelessness workers. The funding will also help improve the co-ordination of services available to those in need and at risk.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 21/06/2018 16:09:19 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
	tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

923549

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2018
	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, how many women’s refuges for women over the age of 16 there were per capita in England in (a) each year since 2008 (b) each month in 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	153320
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2018 answer text <p>Domestic abuse is a life-shattering and absolutely abhorrent crime that nobody should have to suffer.</p><p>The Department does not hold information on the number of women’s refuges per capita in England over the last ten years.</p><p>However, this Department has commissioned Ipsos MORI to conduct an independent, external audit of local authority commissioning of domestic abuse services, including refuges.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 21/06/2018 16:12:01 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
	tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

923550

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2018
	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: 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, how may women were classified as homeless as a result of domestic violence in (a) 2010 and (b) in the most recent month for which information is available.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	153321
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2018 answer text <p>Domestic abuse is a life-shattering and absolutely abhorrent crime. We are committed to protecting victims of domestic abuse, ensuring everyone has a roof over their head and receives all the support they need to rebuild their lives. The Government is building a country that is fit for the future which cares for the most vulnerable in our society,</p><p>My Department publishes regular statistics on statutory homelessness and homelessness prevention and relief in England. These are published at a local authority level. The latest statistics can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics</a></p><p>We have collected data on applicant households found to be eligible for assistance, unintentionally homeless and in priority need during the financial year, by priority need category, including if due to domestic violence.</p><p>Alongside the Homelessness Reduction Act, we are implementing a new case-level data system called H-CLIC, which will be collecting the following categories of data related to domestic abuse and violence:</p><ul><li><p>whether an applicant is in priority need due to being vulnerable as they have fled home because of violence or threat of violence;</p></li><li><p>whether domestic abuse was the main reason for loss of settled home;</p></li><li><p>whether the support needs of the main applicant and household members include at risk of or experience of domestic abuse; and</p></li><li><p>whether someone has engaged with support for domestic abuse needs.</p></li></ul> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 21/06/2018 16:08:00 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
	tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

927055

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2018
	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: Cornwall
	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 assistance and accommodation is in place for homeless people in Cornwall.
	tabling member constituency	North Cornwall
	tabling member printed	Scott Mann
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	155355
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to combating homelessness and rough sleeping. No one should ever have to sleep rough. That is why we are aiming to halve rough sleeping by 2022 and eliminate it altogether by 2027.</p><p><br>We have implemented the most ambitious reforms in homelessness legislation in decades, the Homelessness Reduction Act which commenced in April 2018. The Act significantly reforms England’s homelessness legislation, ensuring that more people get the help they need earlier to prevent them from becoming homeless in the first place. To achieve this, we have set up a Rough Sleeping and Homelessness Reduction Taskforce that will focus on prevention and affordable housing.</p><p>We are supporting 48 projects through our £20 million Rough Sleeping Grant, with £470,000 awarded to the Nos Da project in Cornwall for services to work in partnership and prevent people from sleeping rough through identifying those at risk as well as assisting people into emergency accommodation.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 26/06/2018 10:29:35 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
	tabling member	4496 label Biography information for Scott Mann