Jim Cunningham – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2015-11-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of how many people were recorded as homeless in each county region in the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

Mr Marcus Jones

The Department for Communities and Local Government collects and publishes data on statutory homelessness in England at a local authority district level only.

The figures for the number of households accepted as statutorily homeless for each local authority district are available within Live Tables 784 and 784a at the following link:

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

This Government has provided more than £500 million to tackle and prevent homelessness since 2010. This has resulted in local authorities preventing 935,800 households from becoming homeless since then.