As of September 2020 the Department was reasonably confident that all 3,300 homes would be completed by its target date of 31 March 2021.80 In our evidence session the 69 C&AG’s Report, para 2.12. 70 Q 41. 71 Qq 31–2. 72 Q 34. 73 Q 40. 74 Q 42. 75 Q 46; C&AG’s Report, para 2.13. 76 C&AG’s Report, para 2.19. 77 Public Accounts Committee, Oral evidence: Starter Homes, HC 88, 22 October 2020, Qq 3–7. 78 Q 56. 79 Q 57. 80 C&AG’s Report, paras 2.19–20. COVID-19: housing people sleeping rough 15 Department told us it was its aim to have the vast majority of these homes to be ready by this date.81 However, it was unable to state how many were already completed, nor to provide any figures for how many it projected would be ready by the end of March.82 81 Q 50. 82 Qq 55–6, 58. 16 COVID-19: housing people sleeping rough