Bed-and-Breakfast Accommodation

HC Deb 25 January 1989 vol 145 cc638-9W

47. Mr. Morley

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give the latest available figures for households in bed-and-breakfast accommodation(a) in Greater London and (b) in England and Wales as a whole.

Mr. Trippier

Latest estimates of households temporarily placed in bed-and-breakfast accommodation by English local authorities appear in table 4(a) of "Local authorities' action under the homelessness provisions of the 1985 Housing Act: England. Results for the third quarter of 1988. Supplementary Tables", which is available in the Library.

For Welsh figures, I refer the hon. Member to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.

80. Mr. Haynes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is his latest estimate of the cost of keeping a homeless family in bed-and-breakfast accommodation.

Mr. Trippier

The latest estimate of the average cost per household day of bed-and-breakfast accommodation provided by English local authorities in 1987–88 is £34 (£26 net of offsetting income such as DSS allowances).