HC Deb 19 October 1994 vol 248 c258W
27. Mr. Hardy

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the estimate of the number of people who are either homeless or inadequately housed.

Mr. Gummer

Some 128,000 households were accepted by local authorities in England as statutorily homeless during the 12 months ending in June 1994. In 1992, a housing attitudes survey carried out for my Department found that only 2 per cent. of households were very dissatisfied with their housing; some of this dissatisfaction will have been associated with factors other than the adequacy of the accommodation, for example its location.