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(2) how much was paid in (a) revenue grant and (b) capital grant payments to the voluntary sector in London by the Homelessness Directorate in 2004–05.

Asked by

Emily Thornberry (Labour)

Answering body

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

26 January 2006

For answer on

30 January 2006

Answered on

13 February 2006

Homelessness grants from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister supplement other sources of Government funding that help to tackle homelessness, including housing capital investment, supporting people and revenue support grant.In 2004–05 a total of just over £44 million in homelessness grants was allocated to organisations in London by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.The following table provides details of homelessness revenue and capital grant payments made by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in 2004–05 to each local authority in London. Some of this funding may have been passed on by these authorities to voluntary sector agencies to pay for homelessness services.Some funding was provided direct to voluntary sector agencies from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. The following table also shows the total value of these grants in London. Most of the voluntary sector homelessness services funded direct by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister operate across more than one local authority area.

ODPM homelessness grants in London, 2004–05
	Revenue	Capital
Authority
Barking and Dagenham	28,000.00	—
Barnet	165,000.00	—
Bexley	58,000.00	—
Brent	783,000.00	—
Bromley	100,000.00	—
Camden	1,800,000.00	—
City of London	515,000.00	—
Croydon	600,000.00	—
Ealing	600,000.00	—
Enfield	250,000.00	—
Greater London Authority	40,000.00	—
Greenwich	100,000.00	—
Hackney	640,000.00	—
Hammersmith and Fulham	1,500,000.00	470,000.00
Haringey	200,000.00	—
Harrow	183,000.00	—
Havering	27,000.00	—
Hillingdon	80,000.00	—
Hounslow	180,000.00	—
Islington	357,000.00	—
Kensington and Chelsea	943,000.00	—
Kingston upon Thames	90,000.00	—
Lambeth	2,100,000.00	—
Lewisham	100,000.00	474,000.00
Merton	80,000.00	—
Newham	250,000.00	—
Redbridge	105,000.00	—
Richmond	295,000.00	—
Southwark	1,100,000.00	353,000.00
Sutton	150,000.00	—
Tower Hamlets	800,000.00	—
Waltham Forest	200,000.00	—
Wandsworth	300,000.00	—
Westminster	7,366,000.00	9,480,000.00
Total grants to authorities	22,085,000.00	10,777,000.00

Voluntary sector organisations
Not split by authority	9,658,188.00	1,493,550.00
Total grants to voluntary sector organisations	9,658,188.00	1,493,550.00

Date

13 February 2006

Reference

442 c1621-2W;442 c1621-2W; 47177

House

House of Commons

Homelessness

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister (1) what (a) revenue grant and (b) capital grant payments were made by the Homelessness Directorate in support of local homelessness strategies in each local authority in London in 2004–05;

Asked by

Emily Thornberry (Labour)

Answering body

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

26 January 2006

For answer on

30 January 2006

Answered on

13 February 2006

ODPM homelessness grants in London, 2004–05
	Revenue	Capital
Authority
Barking and Dagenham	28,000.00	—
Barnet	165,000.00	—
Bexley	58,000.00	—
Brent	783,000.00	—
Bromley	100,000.00	—
Camden	1,800,000.00	—
City of London	515,000.00	—
Croydon	600,000.00	—
Ealing	600,000.00	—
Enfield	250,000.00	—
Greater London Authority	40,000.00	—
Greenwich	100,000.00	—
Hackney	640,000.00	—
Hammersmith and Fulham	1,500,000.00	470,000.00
Haringey	200,000.00	—
Harrow	183,000.00	—
Havering	27,000.00	—
Hillingdon	80,000.00	—
Hounslow	180,000.00	—
Islington	357,000.00	—
Kensington and Chelsea	943,000.00	—
Kingston upon Thames	90,000.00	—
Lambeth	2,100,000.00	—
Lewisham	100,000.00	474,000.00
Merton	80,000.00	—
Newham	250,000.00	—
Redbridge	105,000.00	—
Richmond	295,000.00	—
Southwark	1,100,000.00	353,000.00
Sutton	150,000.00	—
Tower Hamlets	800,000.00	—
Waltham Forest	200,000.00	—
Wandsworth	300,000.00	—
Westminster	7,366,000.00	9,480,000.00
Total grants to authorities	22,085,000.00	10,777,000.00

Voluntary sector organisations
Not split by authority	9,658,188.00	1,493,550.00
Total grants to voluntary sector organisations	9,658,188.00	1,493,550.00

Date

13 February 2006

Reference

442 c1621-2W;442 c1621-2W; 47178

House

House of Commons

The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister;tackling homelessness. Public Accounts Committee thirteenth report with proceedings, evidence (HC 428-i 2004/05 not printed separately) and appendices.

Type

Select Committee reports; House of Commons papers; Parliamentary committees

Committee

Committee of Public Accounts

Notes

See also NAO report HC 286 2004/05

Date

7 November 2005

Reference

HC 653 2005-06

House

House of Commons

More than a roof: progress in tackling homelessness. Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General.

Type

House of Commons papers

Notes

Received 22.02.05See also PAC report HC 653 2005-06

Date

21 February 2005

Reference

HC 286 2004/05

House

House of Commons

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, which local authorities in London have used the funding from the Homelessness Directorate in support of their local homelessness strategies to pay cash incentives to social rented sector tenants to relinquish their tenancy and buy a property on the open market; how much funding...

Asked by

Baroness King of Bow (Labour)

Answering body

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

23 March 2004

Reference

419 c764W;419 c766W; 162237

House

House of Commons

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will list the funding each local authority in London (a) has received and (b) will receive from the Homelessness Directorate in (i) 2002-03, (ii) 2003-04 and (iii) 2004-05 to support their local homelessness strategies; and how that funding has been or is...

Asked by

Baroness King of Bow (Labour)

Answering body

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

1 March 2004

For answer on

11 March 2004

Answered on

11 March 2004

Ms Oona King: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister if he will list the funding each local authority in London (a) has received and (b) will receive from the Homelessness Directorate in (i) 2002-03, (ii) 2003-04 and (iii) 2004-05 to support their local homelessness strategies; and how that funding has been or is to be used in each case. [158549] Yvette Cooper: The allocations to London boroughs over the three years 2002-03 to 2004-05 are tabled as follows. Homelessness grants from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister are intended to supplement main sources of expenditure on homelessness (for example, local authority general fund expenditure and housing investment) to fund innovative services that tackle and prevent homelessness more effectively. The approaches underpinning this funding were set out in our March 2002 report, "More than a roof". Allocations were boosted in 2002-03 and 2003-04 in acknowledgement of the need to pump-prime a number of new schemes to help deliver the Government's target to end the use of bed and breakfast hotels for homeless families with children, except in short-term emergencies, while improvements to Housing Benefit subsidy for other forms of temporary accommodation were put in place. All housing authorities are offered a set allocation based on historic levels of homelessness in the borough. An additional grant may also be awarded based on performance in tackling homelessness and an assessment by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and the Government Offices in the Regions of bids submitted by authorities for funds to help them: eradicate the use of bed and breakfast hotels as accommodation for homeless families with children, except in short-term emergencies; sustain reductions in the number of people sleeping rough to a level as near to zero as possible and at least two-thirds below the level in 1998; and tackle and prevent homelessness more effectively. Over the three-year period there has been a reduction in direct commissioning by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister of services to tackle rough sleeping. Resources have been transferred to local authorities to commission services themselves as part of the development and implementation of local homelessness strategies. This is most apparent in the increasing allocation to Westminster. Authorities have considerable discretion over how they use the grant, provided that they deliver the required outcomes. While particular schemes are set out in individual financial agreements and monitoring returns for each authority, we do not maintain a detailed, central schedule of all the services funded in each year. Typical of the range of schemes that may be funded are: mediation; rent deposit/bond schemes; private sector and RSL lettings; advice services; services for particularly vulnerable groups; tenancy sustainment and outreach services. Services provided in each local authority area, including those receiving Office of the Deputy Prime Minister funding, are likely to feature in most authorities' homelessness strategies if they existed or were planned when the strategies were being written. An independent evaluation of the homelessness strategies developed during 2003 in response to the requirements of the Homelessness Act 2002 has been commissioned by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and will provide more detailed information on the approaches taken by authorities. A further project will be commissioned shortly to evaluate homelessness prevention schemes, including those funded by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's homelessness grants. £ _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Grant paid 2002-03 Offer amounts 2003-04 1 Provisional offer 2004-05 2 Barking and Dagenham 38,000 68,000 28,000 Barnet 420,000 435,000 165,000 Bexley 120,000 130,800 58,000 Brent 1,970,000 1,423,000 783,000 Bromley 242,000 183,500 100,000 Camden 1,004,000 1,884,192 1,800,000 City of London 18,000 656,000 500,000 Croydon 1,597,000 1,104,000 600,000 Ealing 1,535,000 1,224,608 600,000 Enfield 588,000 509,000 250,000 Greenwich 63,000 113,000 100,000 Hackney 224,000 646,000 640,000 Hammersmith and Fulham 1,816,000 1,300,500 1,500,000 Haringey 421,000 473,500 200,000 Harrow 191,000 181,000 178,000 Havering 0 27,000 27,000 Hillingdon 920,000 780,000 80,000 Hounslow 494,000 459,000 180,000 Islington 306,000 326,700 357,000 Kensington and Chelsea 1,252,000 1,565,511 905,000 Kingston upon Thames 151,000 121,000 90,000 Lambeth 1,083,000 1,149,456 2,000,000 Lewisham 79,000 290,000 250,000 Merton 116,000 75,000 80,000 Newham 1,803,000 1,257,000 250,000 Redbridge 458,000 292,000 105,000 Richmond 116,000 386,576 295,000 Southwark 518,000 996,508 1,100,000 Sutton 241,000 193,000 150,000 Tower Hamlets 1,174,000 876,050 800,000 Waltham Forest 825,000 383,000 200,000 Wandsworth 629,000 546,000 300,000 Westminster 2,902,000 4,434,374 7,366,000 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 We will not know actual spend for 2003-04 until fourth quarter expenditure returns are completed and returned by London authorities. 2 Some 2004-05 offers are still to be agreed with London authorities. In addition to the above grants, cross boundary funding provided mainly to voluntary and community sector agencies to tackle and prevent homelessness totalled: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. £ 2002-03 24,371,000 2003-04 18,735,000 2004-05 19,063,000 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Not all allocations for 2004-05 have been confirmed.

Date

11 March 2004

Reference

418 c1708-9W;418 c1710-1W; 158549

House

House of Commons

Deposited Paper DEP 03/2708

Deposited by

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Type

Deposited papers

Date

29 December 2003

Reference

DEP 03/2708

House

House of Commons; House of Lords

Symons of Vernham Dean, Baroness

Further to the Written Answer by the Lord Falconer of Thoroton on 25 February 2002 (631 c199WA) in respect of rough sleeping in the piazza in front of Westminster Cathedral, how many people in the Government's Homelessness Directorate are involved in attempting to reduce the numbers of those sleeping rough...

Asked by

Lord Patten (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

10 December 2003

Reference

HL 217; 655 c68WA

House

House of Lords

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will make a statement on the (a) purpose, (b) annual budget since inception, (c) projected budget for the next two years and (d) current work programme of his Department's (i) Homelessness Directorate, (ii) Neighbourhood Renewal Unit, (iii) Planning Directorate, (iv) Regional Co-ordination...

Asked by

Norman Lamb (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

20 November 2003

Reference

413 c1286W;413 c1282W; 139782

House

House of Commons

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many employees of (a) the Social Exclusion Unit, (b) the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit and (c) the Homelessness Directorate there were in each year since their creation. - Includes figures.

Asked by

Archie Norman (Conservative)

Answering body

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

1 May 2003

Reference

103064; 404 c494W

House

House of Commons

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the total pay costs incurred by (a) the Social Exclusion Unit, (b) the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit and (c) the Homelessness Directorate have been in each year since their creation. - Includes table.

Asked by

Archie Norman (Conservative)

Answering body

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

11 March 2003

For answer on

27 March 2003

Answered on

27 March 2003

Mr. Norman: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what the total pay costs incurred by (a) the Social Exclusion Unit, (b) the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit and (c) the Homelessness Directorate have been in each year since their creation. [103067] Mrs. Roche: Tabled is the total pay costs for the Social Exclusion Unit (SEU) for each year since its creation in 1997; the Homelessness Directorate since its creation in 2000 and the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit (NRU) since its creation in 2001. The figures for the years prior to 2001-02 are in cash terms. The figures for the year 2001-02 are on a resource basis. £000 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Year SEU Homelessness NRU 1997-98 46 -- -- 1998-99 419 -- -- 1999-2000 810 -- -- 2000-01 1,146 1,055 -- 2001-02 1,367 984 2,395 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Date

27 March 2003

Reference

103067; 402 c357W;402 c356-7W

House

House of Commons

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many employees of (a) the Social Exclusion Unit, (b) the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit and (c) the Homelessness Directorate have been (i) members of the Labour Party, (ii) previous employees of the Labour Party and (iii) previous employees of Labour honourable Members in each...

Asked by

Archie Norman (Conservative)

Answering body

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

25 March 2003

Reference

103066; 402 c176W;402 c175-6W

House

House of Commons

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, pursuant to his Answer of 10th December 2002, 396 c267W, if he will require the Rough Sleepers Unit to record rough sleepers who are also asylum seekers separately from other rough sleepers for the purposes of the street count.

Asked by

Simon Hughes (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

18 December 2002

Reference

87932; 396 c874W;396 c872W

House

House of Commons

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will list (a) the number of staff in and (b) the cost of the (i) Rough Sleepers Unit and (ii) Homelessness Directorate in each year since each was established. - Table given.

Asked by

Paul Marsden (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

18 December 2002

Reference

87434; 396 c873-4W;396 c871W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the report by Dr Sian Griffiths, commissioned by the Rough Sleepers Unit, on primary health care provision for homeless people has been published. - Inc ref to "Addressing the health needs of rough sleepers" available in Library.

Asked by

Evan Harris (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

16 December 2002

Reference

81749; 396 c653W;396 c669W

House

House of Commons

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what arrangements he has made for contact assessment outreach workers in the Rough Sleepers Unit to record the number of destitute asylum seekers sleeping rough.

Asked by

Simon Hughes (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

10 December 2002

Reference

396 c267W; 85815

House

House of Commons

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will make a statement on the progress of the Bed and Breakfast Unit in reducing the number of homeless families with children living in bed and breakfast accommodation.

Asked by

Sandra Gidley (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

24 October 2002

Reference

76405; 391 c492W;391 c489-90W

House

House of Commons

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what progress the Homelessness Directorate has made with regard to tackling homelessness. - Inc figures.

Asked by

Lord Cotter (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

23 May 2002

For answer on

10 June 2002

Answered on

10 June 2002

Brian Cotter: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what progress the Homelessness Directorate has made with regard to tackling homelessness. [60493] Mr. McNulty: I have been asked to reply. The Homelessness Directorate brings together the Rough Sleepers Unit, the Bed and Breakfast Unit and a new team to advise local authorities on tackling homelessness. The Directorate aims to: sustain the success of meeting the Prime Minister's target of reducing rough sleeping by two thirds by 2002; ensure that by March 2004 no homeless families with children are living in bed and breakfast hotels except in an emergency and, even then, for no more than six weeks; promote new and more strategic approaches to tackle more effectively the growing problem of homelessness. Since its establishment in March this year, the Homelessness Directorate has: published the report "More than a roof" which, together with the Secretary of State's response, sets out a new approach to tackling homelessness; reviewed local rough sleeping strategies in order to sustain the two thirds reduction in the number of rough sleepers in England; published a good practice handbook to help local authorities to conduct homelessness reviews and develop effective homelessness strategies; invited local authorities to apply for £10 million funding for homelessness strategies, to commence in July 2002; held a number of regional good practice conferences on reducing the use of B&B hotels; required high using B&B authorities to produce B&B reduction action plans, backed up by £35 million of new resources; participated in seven seminars organised by the Chartered Institute of Housing to promote awareness of the requirements of the Homelessness Act among housing and homelessness professionals; issued new advice to housing authorities on arrangements to ensure that all babies and children placed in temporary accommodation receive their health and developmental tests; improved the collection of information from local authorities to monitor the number of homeless families with children living in B&B hotels and to record the length of time they stay there. Additionally, the Government have: taken through the Homelessness Act 2002 which will strengthen the statutory safety net for homeless people and ensure that all housing authorities have a homelessness strategy for their districts; confirmed its intention to bring the main homelessness provisions of that Act into force in July, together with an extension by order of the groups who are in priority need for housing; confirmed that £10 million will be allocated to local authorities in 2002-03 to help them deliver the proposed new priority needs order; amended housing benefit rules to provide additional incentives for private leasing as an alternative to the use of B&B hotels for homeless people; announced that tackling homelessness is a new theme for the Beacon Councils scheme.

Date

10 June 2002

Reference

60493; 386 c1031-2W

House

House of Commons

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what proportion of the money allocated to the (a) BBU and (b) RSU by him for the current financial year is expected to be spent on administration costs. - Inc figures.

Asked by

Baroness May of Maidenhead (Conservative)

Answering body

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

10 June 2002

Reference

60666; 386 c1032W

House

House of Commons

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the administration costs for the (a) National Homelessness Directorate, (b) BBU and (c) RSU were in the last 12 months. - Inc figures.

Asked by

Baroness May of Maidenhead (Conservative)

Answering body

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

10 June 2002

Reference

60664; 386 c1032W

House

House of Commons

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