§ Mr. FearnTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many young people have been housed under the move-on programme.
§ Mr. Yeo[holding answer 16 December 1991]: A total of 1,550 people aged 16 to 25 moved on from hostels, shared housing, bed and breakfast or other similar temporary accommodation into permanent housing provided by housing associations between 1 July 1990 and 30 June 1991.
Under my Department's rough sleepers initiative in central London, some 600 people aged 16 to 25 had been housed in hostels, flats and houses at the end of September 1991.