§ Mr. BoatengTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many persons are or were registered as homeless in(a) London and (b) in the London borough of Brent (i) now and (ii) in 1979.
§ Mr. BaldryThe available information is on the numbers of households for whom local authorities accepted responsibility for securing permanent accommodation under the homelessness provisions of the Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 1977 and the Housing Act 1985. Estimates of the number of persons in these households is not available centrally.
The available information is as follows:
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Homeless households accepted for permanent rehousing1 Year Greater London Brent 1979 15,054 1,074 1991 39,590 1,384 1 A new reporting system was introduced for London authorities from the third quarter of 1982, and the definition of acceptances was altered from the second quarter of 1991, to exclude "intentionally" homeless. Earlier Greater London figures have been adjusted to the new basis, but the adjustment cannot be applied to individual local authorities. The acceptances figures for 1979, especially that for
Brent, are therefore not strictly comparable with those for later years. Note: Includes households awaiting the outcome of enquiries who may not be accepted as homeless.