§ Mr. StrawTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish a table for the latest available year showing for each local housing authority in England(a) the total amount of capital receipts, (b) the reserve proportion thereof, (c) numbers in temporary accommodation and (d) the cost of temporary accommodation, with totals for London boroughs, metropolitan boroughs, shire districts, and England.
§ Mr. GummerI have today placed in the Library of the House tables giving final figures of(a) total receipts and (b) reserved receipts for 1991–92 and corresponding provisional figures for 1992–93 for each local housing authority in England.
My Department does not collect information on the total numbers of those homeless households which have been placed by local authorities in temporary accommodation having been accepted by them as homeless, nor on the costs of the various types of temporary accommodation other than bed and breakfast accommodation.
Data on the total numbers of households placed in temporary accommodation and some data on the costs are, however, collected by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy. The latest information is for 1991–92 and is published in "Homelessness Statistics 1991–92 Actuals", a copy of which is in the Library.