Milton Keynes South MP Iain Stewart has welcomed another Government boost in funding to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping across Milton Keynes.
Since 2019, the Milton Keynes MPs have secured more than £20 million in investment from the Conservative Government aimed at preventing homelessness and getting people off the streets.
This includes £3,373,905 specifically to Milton Keynes through the Rough Sleeping Initiative 2022-25, which was then topped up with an extra £450,000 by the Government in September, with another boost of more than £112,000 on the way.
The number of rough sleepers in Milton Keynes remained under 10 from 2010-2014, but when Labour took control of the council in 2014 rough sleeping skyrocketed with almost 50 people on the streets at one count in 2017, leading MK to be dubbed 'tent city'.
The MK MPs have been committed to ending homelessness and rough sleeping and have worked hard in Westminster to secure more funding for Milton Keynes, and have celebrated the work local charities do across the city tackling such an important issue.
Iain Stewart, the MP for Milton Keynes South, commented:
“I welcome the additional funding of £112,000 from the Government to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping in Milton Keynes.
“No-one deserves to sleep rough or live on our streets and so this funding will help the local authority to tackle this and offer support.”