Bed-and-breakfast Accommodation (Hansard, 27 January 1988)

§ Mr. Cox
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the average weekly cost to local authorities of keeping a person in bed-and-breakfast accommodation.

§ Mr. Waldegrave
I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to the hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes) on 21 January, at column826.

§ Mr. Cox
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what discussions he has had with the leader of Wandsworth council on the number of empty council properties in the borough, in the light of the numbers on the housing waiting list or living in bed-and-breakfast accommodation.
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§ Mr. Waldegrave
Neither my right hon. Friend nor I have had any such discussions.

§ Mr. Cox
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many people were in bed-and-breakfast accommodation in each of the 32 London boroughs on 31 October 1987.

§ Mr. Waldegrave
Information is available in the publication "Local authorities' action under the homelessness provisions of the 1985 Housing Act: England. Results for third quarter 1987. Supplementary tables", which is in the Library. It contains for each authority responding the number of households in bed-and-breakfast accommodation at the end of September 1987. The information is available only for the last day of each quarter.