HC Deb 16 July 1990 vol 176 cc378-9W
Mr. Mallon

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what is the number of(a) single people and (b) families who have presented themselves as homeless to the Northern Ireland Housing Executive in each district council area in each year since 1980.

Mr. Peter Bottomley

The Northern Ireland Housing Executive was given responsibility for dealing with the accommodation needs of all homeless people under the Housing (NI) Order 1988 which came into effect on 1 April 1989. The information requested is therefore available only from that date. I am advised by the chairman of the Housing Executive that the number of single people and families who have presented themselves as homeless during the year 1 April 1989 to 31 March 1990 in each district council area is as follows:

District council (a) Single people (b) Families
Antrim 18 29
Ards 168 167
Armagh 36 37
Ballymena 69 67
Ballymoney 54 33
Banbridge 57 66
Belfast 975 1,164
Carrick 60 36
Castlereagh 112 120
Coleraine 37 45
Cookstown 52 52
Craigavon 136 114
Derry City 189 309
Down 138 138
Dungannon 42 35
Fermanagh 71 59
Larne 126 58
Limavady 47 52
Lisburn 292 249
Magherafelt 21 30
Moyle 34 36
Newry and Mourne 158 155
Newtownabbey 85 105
North Down 107 121
Omagh 111 70
Strabane 29 47
Total 3,225 3,395