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Written question asked by Chris Ruane (Labour) on Thursday, 30 June 2011, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 4 July 2011. It was answered by Grant Shapps (Conservative) on Thursday, 7 July 2011 on behalf of the Department for Communities and Local Government.

Homelessness: Finance

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what information he holds on the level of expenditure by each local authority to support people sleeping rough in each of the last five years.
Answer

The following table shows Department for Communities and Local Government homelessness grant funding for the years requested.

Homelessness grant funding 2006-07 to 2010-11
LAs (£ million) Voluntary organisations (£ million) Total
2006-07 49.5 18 67.5
2007-08 51 19.5 70.5
2008-09 59.5 17.1 76.5
2009-10 59.51 18.4 77.9
2010-11 74.11 18.7 92.8

In addition the Department currently collects retrospective year-end spend data from top-tier local authorities via the Supporting People Local Systems data set. This includes 'spend' broken down by Supporting People primary client groups including 'rough sleepers'. Supporting People provides housing related support services to vulnerable people including rough sleepers.

Total spend by Supporting People top-tier authority per primary client group
Rough sleeper (£)
2005-06 16,259,386
2006-07 17,485,753
2007-08 18,776,088
2008-09 18,916,951
2009-10 19,661,062
Source:
Supporting People Local Systems data

Spend data to cover financial year 2010-11 are not available yet.This Government takes homelessness very seriously that is why we are maintaining investment in homelessness grant at £100 million a year for each of the next four years to support local authorities and the voluntary sector in their work to tackle homelessness.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
64118; 530 c1364-5W
Session
2010-12
Subjects
Finance Sleeping rough
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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