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Homelessness

Question for Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

UIN 134667, tabled on 28 March 2018

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities, and Local Government, what plans he has to allocate funding to fulfil the provisions of the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 after 2019-20.

Answered on

16 April 2018

The Government published its methodology for calculating and allocating £72.7 million of new burdens funding, on 16 October 2017. It can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/homelessness-reduction-act-new-burdens-funding

The Government has committed to review the implementation of the Act and the level of new burdens funding within two years of the commencement of the Act.

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