Baroness Jowell – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Jowell on 2016-04-12.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their estimate of the number of people who are street homeless in London for each year since 2010.

Baroness Williams of Trafford

One person without a home is one too many and we are committed to doing all we can to prevent homelessness. That is why we have increased central investment to tackle homelessness over the next four years to £139 million.

This will include a new national £10 million programme to support innovative ways to tackle rough sleeping, and will build on the success of our No Second Night Out initiative, which saw two-thirds of rough sleepers in London come off the streets after a single night.

DCLG publishes regular statistics on rough sleeping. These are available (the latest figures are attached) at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/rough-sleeping-in-england-autumn-2015

The GLA collects more detailed statistics on rough sleeping in London. These are available at: http://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/chain-reports

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