AQW 25054/22-27 Written question to the Minister for Communities
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.
Asked by Andrew McMurray MLA on 25 March 2025
- Answered
- Written
- After due date
- Tabled
- 25 March 2025
- Answer due by
- 9 April 2025
- Answered
- 13 May 202549 days after tabling
- Department
- Department for Communities
- Priority question
- No
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% |