Select committee: Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
Recommendation 13
Third Report - Exempt Accommodation
Published 27 Oct 2022
Paragraph 83
Addressed to Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
Within twelve months of publication of this report, the Government must organise the collection, collation and publication of annual statistics at a local authority level on the following: • The number of exempt accommodation claimants; • The number of exempt accommodation providers; • The number of housing units used for exempt accommodation; • The number of exempt accommodation housing units per provider; • The number of exempt accommodation claimants per provider; 48 Exempt Accommodation • The number of exempt accommodation providers registered with different regulators, and commissioned to provide accommodation or support; • The number of providers meeting and failing to meet the national standards we set out; and • The amount of money paid by both the DWP and the local authority in exempt accommodation housing benefit.
From: Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, Third Report - Exempt Accommodation (HC 21), paragraph 83, 27 October 2022
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 27 June 2023 (deadline 27 December 2022).
Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.The government says it "strongly welcome[s]" the Committee's recommendations and is supporting the Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Bill, which it believes, "subject to Royal Assent", will address many of the issues raised.
- On national standards and licensing, the government says it will "formally consult" with the sector to develop the licensing scheme and national standards for support "as soon as possible after Royal Assent".
- On mandatory registration of all providers with the Regulator of Social Housing, it gives its reasons, including the risk of reclassification of the sector as public, and considers the Bill's measures "better placed" to provide oversight.
- On rent caps, it says it "cannot effectively determine a standardised rent cap at this point", citing the complexity and range of housing models in the sector.
- On data, it says research on the size, cost and demand of the sector will be published "by the end of 2023".