Catherine McKinnell – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Catherine McKinnell on 2016-01-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will bring forward plans to (a) require all local authorities to measure the level of single non-priority homelessness in their areas and (b) collate that data in a national database.

Mr Marcus Jones

Information on homeless households not in priority need is already collected and published in table 770 of the homelessness live tables which can be viewed at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness

No information is collected on the household type of households found to be not in priority need.

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