§ Mr. ClayTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many(a) families and (b) single people accepted as homeless within the borough of Sunderland area are at present in (i) bed-and-breakfast accommodation, (ii) other forms of temporary accommodation and (iii) of no fixed abode, and are in receipt of state benefits.
§ Mr. ChopeThe latest available figures for the number of homeless households in bed-and-breakfast and other forms of temporary accommodation are for the end of December 1989. These appear in table 7 of "Local authorities" action under the homelessness provisions of the 1985 Housing Act: England; Results for the fourth quarter of 1989; Supplementary Tables", which is the Library.
The number of single people among the households accepted as homeless is not reported to the Department by local authorities and we have no estimates.
Statistics on the numbers of homeless people in temporary accommodation or of no fixed abode and in receipt of state benefits are not available centrally in the form requested.