§ Mr. AllenTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security whether his Department has received a copy of the report of the Nottingham university single homeless monitoring project and from agencies serving the homeless in the Nottingham area; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Peter LloydThe Department can trace no record of having received this report.
§ Mr. AllenTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many people live in hostels for the homeless in Nottinghamshire.
§ Mr. TrippierI have been asked to reply.
The only figures collected centrally are the latest estimates of households placed in hostels by English local authorities. They are given in table 7 of the publication "Local Authorities' Action under the Homelessness Provisions of the 1985 Housing Act; England. Results for Third Quarter 1988, Supplementary Tables" which are available in the House of Commons Library.
Local authorities provide quarterly estimates of the numbers of people accepted as homeless under the terms of the homeless provisions of the Housing Act 1985.
An extract from table 7 of the Supplementary Tables Third Quarter 1988 reads as follows:
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Number of households in temporary accommodation at the end of quarter Bed and breakfast Hostels1 Others2 Ashfield — 4 — Bassetlaw — — 3245 Broxtowe 2 1 19 Gedling — 10 — Mansfield — 8 16 Newark and Sherwood — 48 — Nottingham 1 60 21 Rushcliffe 1 8 9 1 Including women's refuge. 2 Including short-life dwellings. 3 Bassetlaw often let temporary accommodation to homeless families and then rehouse them later.