§ Ms Christine RussellTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what progress has been made in reducing rough sleeping in London since he last published an estimate of numbers. [110298]
§ Ms ArmstrongThe most recent evidence on the number of people sleeping rough in London comes from single night street counts carried out in 11 boroughs on the night of 20 January 2000 (27 January in Lambeth).
We have previously estimated that as at June 1999 there were 635 people sleeping rough in Greater London. Using the January 2000 counts to update that figure where possible, our best estimate is that there were 420 people sleeping rough in Greater London as at January 2000.