NSAP Grant Funding

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Dear Manchester City Council,

I am requesting information related to the Next Steps Accommodation Programme (NSAP) grant funding scheme to reduce rough sleeping and to ensure rough sleepers brought into emergency accommodation in response to COVID-19 do not return to sleeping rough.

1) Could you confirm that you received £3,524,940 of funding from the NSAP Grant?

2) Could you confirm how much of the capital grant is to be deployed by the required cut off date of the 31st March 2021, and if there is any outstanding grant unspent, whether this will be repatriated to Central Government?

3) Could you confirm the target number of units of accommodation that is to be delivered using the NSAP grant?

4) Could you confirm the actual number of units of accommodation that were delivered using the NSAP grant?

Yours faithfully,
Jonathon Baxter.

foi@manchester.gov.uk, Manchester City Council

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foi@manchester.gov.uk, Manchester City Council

 

 

Dear  Jonathon

 

 

Reference: OI/4446 NSAP Grant Funding

 

Thank you for your request for information which was received by
Manchester City Council on 25/03/2021 and has been considered under the
provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (“the 2000 Act”).

 

You asked:

 

I am requesting information related to the Next Steps Accommodation
Programme (NSAP) grant funding scheme to reduce rough sleeping and to
ensure rough sleepers brought into emergency accommodation in response to
COVID-19 do not return to sleeping rough.

1) Could you confirm that you received £3,524,940 of funding from the NSAP
Grant?

2) Could you confirm how much of the capital grant is to be deployed by
the required cut off date of the 31st March 2021, and if there is any
outstanding grant unspent, whether this will be repatriated to Central
Government?

3) Could you confirm the target number of units of accommodation that is
to be delivered using the NSAP grant?

4) Could you confirm the actual number of units of accommodation that were
delivered using the NSAP grant?

 

In response to your request, please see below:

1) Could you confirm that you received £3,524,940 of funding from the NSAP
Grant?

Manchester City Council does not hold this information. Although
Manchester City Council put in the funding bid, it was our partner
Registered Providers who received the grant direct from Homes England

2) Could you confirm how much of the capital grant is to be deployed by
the required cut off date of the 31st March 2021, and if there is any
outstanding grant unspent, whether this will be repatriated to Central
Government?

Manchester City Council does not hold this information. Although
Manchester City Council put in the funding bid, it was our partner
Registered Providers who received the grant direct from Homes England

3) Could you confirm the target number of units of accommodation that is
to be delivered using the NSAP grant?

80 properties is the target number.

4) Could you confirm the actual number of units of accommodation that were
delivered using the NSAP grant?

78 properties are on target to be delivered by Manchester's revised
deadline of 30/06/21.

 

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internal review. If you wish an internal review to be undertaken, please
contact the Democratic Services Legal Team, whose address is, PO Box 532,
Town Hall, Manchester, M60 2LA, email:
[MCC request email] in the first instance. 

 

 

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If you have any queries about this letter please contact me. Please
remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

Nicola Rea

 

Strategic Lead, Directorate for Homelessness

 

Adult Services Directorate

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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