PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Homelessness: Greater Manchester (5 January 2024)

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to financially support voluntary and community sector organisations that support homeless people in (a) Stockport and (b) Greater Manchester.

Asked by:
Navendu Mishra (Labour)

The government is investing over £2 billion over three years to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping, largely through local authorities, many of which use a proportion of this investment to fund voluntary and community sector projects and organisations locally.

Government is also directly investing in the sector. The £7 million Voluntary and Community Frontline Sector Grant programme supports the homelessness voluntary sector across England to develop their skills, capacity and capability through advice, training and partnership development. The £13 million Night Shelter Transformation Fund supports four night shelter projects across Greater Manchester in Wigan, Salford, Bolton and Manchester.

Answered by:
Felicity Buchan (Conservative)
15 January 2024