Bed-and-breakfast Accommodation

HC Deb 20 March 1995 vol 257 c55W

Mr. Cox

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what has been the yearly cost of bed-and-breakfast or temporary accommodation in the London borough of Wandsworth in each year since 1980.

Mr. Robert B. Jones

The net costs of housing homeless households in bed-and-breakfast accommodation, as reported by Wandsworth on its revenue outturn returns, for the years 1990–91—the earliest period for which revenue outturn data are available—to 1993–94 were as follows:

£000
1990–91	1,069
1991–92	1,132
1992–93	1,314
1993–94	898

Data on local authorities' expenditure on bed-and-breakfast accommodation are also published by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy in its annual "Homelessness Statistics Actuals" publication. Copies of these publications, which are available for all years since 1979–80, are in the Library.