Select Committee · Public Accounts Committee

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities recall (Homelessness and housing)

Status: Closed Opened: 22 Sep 2021 Closed: 2 Sep 2022

Inquiry scope

In March 2021 the Committee reported that the Government’s emergency housing policy to get people sleeping rough off the streets as the Covid pandemic hit had “ exposed a rough sleeping problem many times larger than Government has previously acknowledged ” The Committee also noted the ongoing lack of progress towards either of the promise to end rough sleeping entirely by 2024 , or the Government’s manifesto commitments on house-building . The Committee will recall senior officials at MHCLG for questions on addressing the housing crisis in the UK and the ongoing cladding scandal. There will also be questions on the wider “Levelling Up” agenda, including follow up on the Towns Fund which the Committee reported on in 2020 . If you have evidence on any of these issues to inform this session with MHCLG, please submit it here by Thursday 28 October 2021.

Oral evidence sessions

1 session

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Date	Session and witnesses	Source
1 Nov 2021	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Recall (Homelessness and housing) Jeremy Pocklington · Ministry of Defence, Richard Goodman · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Tracey Waltho · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government	View ↗

Who gave evidence

3 witnesses

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Witness	Organisation	Sessions
Jeremy Pocklington · Permanent Secretary	Ministry of Defence	1
Richard Goodman · Director General, Building Safety, Grenfell and Net Zero	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities	1
Tracey Waltho · Director General, Housing and Building Safety	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government	1

Correspondence

3 letters

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Published	Direction	Letter
9 Mar 2022	—	Correspondence from Jeremy Pocklington CB, Permanent Secretary, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, re Further information following the oral evidence session: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities recall (Homelessness and Housing), Public Accounts Committee, dated 25 February 2022
23 Nov 2021	—	Correspondence from Jeremy Pocklington CB, Permanent Secretary, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, re Further information following the oral evidence session: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities recall (Homelessness and housing), Public Accounts Committee, dated 15 November 2021
2 Nov 2021	—	Correspondence from Jeremy Pocklington CB, Permanent Secretary, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, re Homelessness and sleeping rough, dated 28 October 2021