§ Mr. Jim CunninghamTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what are the latest figures for homelessness in(a) the west midlands area and (b) the Coventry area.
§ Mr. BaldryLocal authorities in England report the number of households for whom they accept responsibility to secure permanent accommodation under the homelessness provisions of the Housing Act 1985 in their quarterly PI return.
The latest estimate for the west midlands appears in table 1 of "Households found accommodation under the homelessness provisions of the 1985 Housing Act 1985: England. Statistics for the fourth quarter 1992"; the latest reported figure for Coventry appears in the supplementary table of the same publication, a copy of which is in the Library.
§ Mr. BattleTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what assessment he has made of the(a) causes and (b) level of homelessness within ethnic minority communities.
§ Sir George YoungI refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to him on 26 April 1993,Official Report, columns 317–18. Two current research projects—one on single homelessness and one on the causes of homelessness among ethnic minorities.