Paul Blomfield – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Paul Blomfield on 2016-04-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to paragraph 1.129 of Budget 2016, HC 901, from which part of his Department’s budget the £100 million allocated to deliver low-cost second stage accommodation for rough sleepers will come.

Mr Marcus Jones

One person without a home is one too many and we are committed to do all we can to prevent homelessness.

We announced at Budget an additional £100 million to deliver low cost ‘move on’ accommodation to enable people leaving hostels and refuges to make a sustainable recovery from a homelessness crisis, providing at least 2,000 places for vulnerable people to enable independent living. We will reprioritise money within our existing capital budgets to deliver this accommodation. This will not affect delivery of the Government’s Starter Homes and Shared Ownership programmes.