Stuart Andrew: To ask the Secretary of State for
Communities and Local Government, what steps the Government has taken to ensure
that local councils provide adequate support and assistance to single homeless
people when they approach their council for help.
Mr Marcus Jones: By law local authorities have a duty to
provide advice and information to anyone asking for help. To help them
discharge that important duty, we have, among other sources of support,
provided £10 million funding to the National Homelessness Advice service to
support frontline staff, and introduced the £8 million Help for Single Homeless
Fund which will help 22,000 people in 168 areas across England by April 2016.
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