§ Mr. TylerTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many people are estimated to be homeless in each English county. [36730]
§ Mr. ClappisonData on households which local authorities accept responsibility to secure accommodation for under the homelessness provisions of the 1985 Housing Act are reported by local authorities districts on a quarterly basis. Total acceptances by the districts in each county for the quarter ending June 1995, the latest available are set out in the table.
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Number Avon 580 Bedfordshire 187 Berkshire 345 Buckinghamshire 279 Cambridgeshire 243 Cheshire 1— Cleveland 481 Cornwall 210 Cumbria 111 Derbyshire 656 Devon 1— Dorset 345 Durham 162 East Sussex 587 Essex 631 Gloucestershire 216 Greater Manchester 2,469 Hampshire 848 Hereford and Worcester 435 Hertfordshire 1— Humberside 268 Isle of Wight 58 Kent 1— Lancashire 1— Leicestershire 1— Lincolnshire 217 London 6,320 Mersey side 744 Norfolk 1— North Yorkshire 1— Northamptonshire 219 Northumberland 130
Number Nottinghamshire 1— Oxfordshire 1— Shopshire 231 Somerset 292 South Yorkshire 591 Staffordshire 1— Suffolk 290 Surrey 394 Tyne and Wear 855 Warwickshire 131 West Midlands 1— West Sussex 346 West Yorkshire 1,568 Wiltshire 373 1 Not available—returns have not been received from all authorities in the county. Details of acceptances in individual authorities are available in a supplementary table which is released alongside the quarterly information bulletin on homelessness statistics.