Source · Select Committees · Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 14
14
Reform funding, including housing integration budget, has been redirected to support system.
Conclusion
We noted that reform funding, including the £300 million budget to integrate housing into local and care strategies, had been redirected to support the system and asked what the consequences of that reprioritisation had been.29 Both the Department and DLUHC acknowledged the redirection of money from supported housing, and the Department told us that taking out the budget to integrate housing had been a ministerial decision. DLUHC went on to highlight the close cross-departmental working on housing; investment in affordable housing, which, it explained, would also benefit supported housing; and legislation designed to improve supported housing oversight.30 Fragmented and uncertain funding