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Whole Day Download the Hansard Monday Volume 653 28 January 2019 No. 241 HOUSE OF COMMONS OFFICIAL REPORT PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (HANSARD) Monday 28 January 2019 © Parliamentary Copyright House of Commons 2019 This publication may be reproduced under the terms of the Open Parliament licence, which is published at www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright/. 457 28 JANUARY 2019 458 James Brokenshire: The hon. Lady is right to highlight House of Commons the issues of mental health and addiction, with a much higher proportion of people who are rough sleeping Monday 28 January 2019 having those particular needs. That is why in the NHS long-term plan there was the commitment for an extra The House met at half-past Two o’clock £30 million designed specifically for health support for rough sleepers, because sometimes access can be really PRAYERS difficult. We are determined to ensure that that type of support is able to be provided to rough sleepers. [MR SPEAKER in the Chair] Anna McMorrin: We know that homelessness is getting worse. According to Shelter, 36 new people become homeless every day. One way to address this is to make Oral Answers to Questions more social housing available. To do that, England should be suspending the right to buy as we have already done in Wales. Does the Secretary of State HOUSING, COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL agree? GOVERNMENT James Brokenshire: I do agree that we require more The Secretary of State was asked— social housing. That is why we have our affordable Homelessness: Death Rates housing programme. We have also already taken off the restrictions on councils in England to enable them to 1. Preet Kaur Gill (Birmingham, Edgbaston) (Lab/Co- borrow to build a new generation of council homes. op): What steps his Department is taking to reduce the [Interruption.] I would just point out to Opposition death rate among homeless people. [908829] Members, with regard to some of their comments, that this Government have built more council houses in their 8. Rosie Duffield (Canterbury) (Lab): What steps his time than in 13 years of the last Labour Government. Department is taking to reduce the death rate among But we know there is more to do and we are committed homeless people. [908836] to doing it. 16. Anna McMorrin (Cardiff North) (Lab): What Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford and Stortford) (Con): steps his Department is taking to reduce the death rate Homelessness is rising, and that is why we need action among homeless people. [908844] to stop it reaching the peak levels that we saw under the last Labour Government. What progress is being made The Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and to ensure that all councils—not some, but all councils Local Government (James Brokenshire): Every death of —are taking the preventive approach envisaged in the someone who is homeless is one too many. That is why Homelessness Reduction Act 2017? we are determined to end rough sleeping altogether. We have committed £100 million to the rough sleeping James Brokenshire: I agree with my hon. Friend strategy, and we are spending over £1.2 billion to prevent about the Homeless Reduction Act—a really ground- and reduce homelessness. breaking piece of legislation very much emphasising a preventive agenda to prevent people from becoming Preet Kaur Gill: Official figures released by Office for homeless at all. Local authorities have received an additional National Statistics just before Christmas shockingly £72.7 million to implement the Act, and the homelessness revealed that 597 people died homeless in England and advice and support team has been providing support. Wales in 2017—an increase of 24% over the last five years. But we need to ensure that more is done and we will With further cold weather expected, will the Secretary certainly be reviewing the implementation of the Act by of State back Labour’s £100 million-a-year plan to March next year. make cold weather emergency accommodation available for every rough sleeper in every area? James Gray (North Wiltshire) (Con): It is often alleged, perhaps anecdotally, that a disproportionate number of James Brokenshire: As I said before Christmas, these rough sleepers are people with a military background, figures are hugely shocking. As I have already indicated, perhaps suffering from drug or drink abuse or from one death is one too many. That is why we are committed post-traumatic stress disorder. Does the Department to taking action across the board; I pointed to the have any statistical method for checking whether that £100 million rough sleeping strategy. At times like this allegation is correct? If so, there would be things that when we have colder weather, we have also allocated an could be done with the armed services as well as through extra £5 million over and above some of our additional the Department. work with short-term capacity to support councils to ensure that we are actually giving the help that is needed James Brokenshire: I can assure my hon. Friend that to some of the most vulnerable in our society. we are working with the Ministry of Defence on support that can be provided to veterans who need our help and Rosie Duffield: This week I spoke to the Hepatitis C backing because they have ended up, for whatever reason, Trust and my local homeless charity, Porchlight, who on the street. He is right to say that we need better data, highlighted rough sleepers as a significantly vulnerable and that is what we seek to achieve. group in terms of alcohol and drug dependency. What steps are the Secretary of State and his Department Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering) (Con): Of the taking to help homeless people to access mental health 600 homeless people who died last year, 85% were men, and addiction services? one third died of drug overdoses and 10% died from 459 Oral Answers 28 JANUARY 2019 Oral Answers 460 alcohol poisoning. Will the Secretary of State ensure John Healey: The Secretary of State is a decent man, that those groups and factors are specifically prioritised but that was an answer of sheer irrelevance. People are in order to tackle this issue? dying on the streets, and the Government are ducking the hard truth that their decisions on hostel funding, on James Brokenshire: I am pleased to say that our housing benefit, on social housing investment and on rough sleeping strategy is intended to give that prioritisation, protections for private renters are the root causes of the through work not only by my Department but across homelessness crisis. With the first widespread winter Whitehall. My hon. Friend is right about that need, and snow forecast this week, there are still areas of this that is what we are determined to provide through the country where no extra emergency accommodation will strategy. be available. Will the Secretary of State think again? Will he save lives this winter and make Labour’s plan Wera Hobhouse (Bath) (LD): Centrepoint estimates the country’s national plan, with £100 million for extra that local funding for Bath and North East Somerset emergency accommodation for every rough sleeper in Council would need to double to deliver on new duties every area as the temperatures are set to hit zero? for homeless young people under the Homelessness Reduction Act. Can the Secretary of State confirm James Brokenshire: I take the issue of rough sleeping, whether he will bring forward proposals to ensure that ensuring that lives are saved and that steps can be taken post 2020 Homelessness Reduction Act funding is based to provide further accommodation and support, extremely on the level of local demand for homelessness support? seriously. It is one of my priorities. It is why the rough sleeping strategy looks not only at accommodation, James Brokenshire: As I have indicated, we will conduct which of course is important, and we have taken steps a review of the implementation of the Homelessness through our rough sleeping initiative, with additional Reduction Act and look at evidence about local authorities’ accommodation and additional support workers out pressures and needs. I want to ensure that the Act is there as a consequence, but at issues of health, addiction implemented well and that we are preventing people and mental health. That is why I am determined to from becoming homeless. make that difference; and our rough sleeping strategy will make that difference and will make rough sleeping a Andrew Bridgen (North West Leicestershire) (Con): thing of the past. To deal with homelessness, we need to deal with the housing shortage. Will my right hon. Friend join me in UK Shared Prosperity Fund applauding the work of North West Leicestershire District Council, which has overseen the construction of more than 1,000 new homes in the last 12 months, including 2. Stuart C. McDonald (Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and the first council houses to be built for more than 30 years? Kirkintilloch East) (SNP): What recent discussions Does he think it is a coincidence that we again recorded he has had with his counterparts in the devolved no rough sleepers in the district over the last 12 months? Administrations on the UK shared prosperity fund. [908830] James Brokenshire: I commend my hon. Friend and his council for the work they are doing to build the The Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and homes that our country needs. Of course it is about the Local Government (James Brokenshire): UK Government supply of affordable and social housing, which is why Ministers meet the devolved Administrations regularly we are taking steps across the board to get people to discuss EU exit matters, and the UK shared prosperity building.
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