§ Mr. KirkwoodTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish figures for the number of households accepted as homeless in Scotland in each year from 1978 until the latest available year.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonThe numbers of applicant households under the homelessness legislation who were assessed as homeless by local authorities are set out in the following table.
Financial year Number of homeless cases 1978–79 7,494 1979–80 7,443 1980–81 7,022 1981–82 8,268 1982–83 8,665 1983–84 8,094 1984–85 9,851 1985–86 110,906 1986–87 19,668 1 Provisional.