AQW 25054/22-27
Mr Andrew McMurray
Alliance Party
South Down
Tabled Date: 25/03/2025
Answered On Date: 13/05/2025
Priority Written: No
Question:
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail how much of his Department's annual homelessness expenditure has been on homelessness prevention initiatives and projects, broken down by (i) total amount spent; and (ii) percentage of total homelessness expenditure, in each of the last five financial years including 2024-25.
Answer:
The following table is a summary of the Housing Executive’s Homelessness Prevention Expenditure: Homelessness Prevention Expenditure | 2019/20 £million | 2020/21 £million | 2021/22 £million | 2022/23 £million | 2023/24 £million | Provisional 2024/25 £million | Community Prevention and Support Initiatives | 3.0 | 2.8 | 3.5 | 4.5 | 4.1 | 4.5 | Strategic Prevention Programmes | 0.4 | 0.9 | 1.4 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.4 | Total Prevention | 3.4 | 3.7 | 4.9 | 5.5 | 4.5 | 4.9 | Prevention as % of Total Homelessness Expenditure | 27% | 18.5% | 19.9% | 20.9% | 13.6% | 14.0% |
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