Homelessness (Hansard, 28 January 1994)

§ Mr. Straw
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the local authorities or other bodies which made representations to him seeking restrictions on the rights of access of homeless persons to social housing, before October 1993.

§ Mr. Raynsford
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what representations he or his Department have received about the categories of people deemed to have priority need under the provision of part III of the Housing Act 1985.

§ Sir George Young
In the normal course of business—for example, meetings and presentations about housing investment programme submissions—Ministers and officials have talked to a range of people in local authorities of all political complexions; we have also talked to people in the housing association movement, and in the private rented sector. These encounters have been helpful to us in preparing the consultation paper "Access to Local Authority and Housing Association Tenancies".

§ Ms Glenda Jackson
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) how many single-parent families were classified as statutorily homeless in(a) the United Kingdom and (b) London for each year from 1979;
(2) how many single-parent families have been accommodated in (a) bed-and-breakfast accommodation, (b) temporary housing, (c) permanent local authority housing and (d) private sector housing since January 1991;
(3) how many single-parent homeless families have (a) one or more, (b) two or more or (c) three or more children under 16 years of age.

§ Sir George Young
Local authorities in England report details of the number of households for which they accept responsibility to secure permanent accommodation under the homelessness provisions of the housing acts in their quarterly P1(E) returns. These returns do not distinguish between one and two-parent households.
For information about other parts of the United Kingdom I refer the hon. Member to my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Scotland and for Wales and my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.