PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Homelessness (28 March 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how he has allocated new burdens funding to local authorities to fulfil the provisions of the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 during the first two years of its implementation.

Asked by:
Bob Blackman (Conservative)

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.

Answered by:
Mrs Heather Wheeler (Conservative)
16 April 2018