§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish statistics listing the number of homeless applicants and the number of people housed under the homeless persons legislation by each local authority in England and Wales in each of the last five years for which statistics are available.
§ Mr. YeoThe available information relates to the number of households on whom inquiries have been completed by local authorities under the homelessness legislation and, of these, the number accepted and found accommodation. This is already published.
The reported figures for individual local authorities appear quarterly in "Local Housing Statistics: England and Wales". Annual totals for 1986, 1987, 1988 and 1989 are given in table 9(b) of volume Nos. 82, 86, 90 and 94, respectively. The 1990 totals are not yet published but figures for the four quarters separately are in table 9(a) of No. 94 and in table 9 of Nos. 95 to 97 of the same publication. Copies are in the Library.