HC Deb 06 July 1995 vol 263 c334W
Mr. Barnes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what proportion of households accepted as homeless by local authorities under part 3 of the Housing Act 1985 was recorded as ethnic minority households in the last year for which figures are available. [30547]

Mr. Robert B. Jones

[holding answer 26 June 1995]: The statistical return—PIE—on which local authorities are asked to provide information on their activities under the homelessness provisions of the Housing Act 1985 has, since the second quarter of 1991, asked about the ethnic origin of households accepted for permanent re-housing. Complete data are not provided by a sizeable number of authorities and, because of the considerable variations in the ethnic mix between authorities, national estimates are not produced on the data currently submitted.