§ Mr. WrayTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (1) how many homeless households are in temporary accommodation in(a) the UK, (b) England and (c) Scotland; [118225]
(2) how many households were defined as homeless in (a) the UK, (b) England and (c) Scotland in the last year for which figures are available. [118228]
§ Mr. MullinInformation on households accommodated under statutory homelessness provisions in England is published in a quarterly Information Bulletin, "Statistics of local authority activities under the homelessness legislation: England". Table 2 of the Bulletin presents a summary of those households accepted as unintentionally homeless and in priority need under the homelessness provisions of the 1985 and 1996 Housing Acts. Tables 5 and 6 show the number of these households in accommodation arranged by the local authority, as at the end of each quarter.
Copies of the Bulletin are held in the Library and the latest edition, published on 15 March, presents statistics up to and including the fourth quarter of 1999.
For information about other parts of the United Kingdom, I refer my hon. Friend to my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.