Source · Select Committees · Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
Recommendation 20
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Ringfencing of Homelessness Prevention Grant funding may detrimentally impact some local authorities.
Conclusion
We welcome the Government’s decision to increase homelessness funding for 2025/26, including the £192.9 million uplift to the Homelessness Prevention Grant (HPG). However, the decision to ringfence 49% of HPG funding for activities to prevent and relieve homelessness may be a detrimental, one-size-fits-all approach towards the pressures facing some local authorities. The ringfence may leave a gap in the funding of those councils which rely heavily on the HPG to fund temporary accommodation, at a time when local authorities are facing acute financial pressures. (Conclusion, Paragraph 87)
Government Response
A response document is linked to this report, dated 16 June 2025. Response attribution to this conclusion has not been verified. Read the response document ↗