§ Mr. CorbynTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what is his Department's current estimate, for each London borough, of the number of(a) homeless people in temporary accommodation, (b) rough sleepers and (c) people on the waiting list for local authority accommodation; and if he will make a statement. [45388]
§ Mr. RaynsfordThe table provides the available data on the numbers of homeless households in temporary accommodation at 31 December 1997 together with the numbers of households on the housing register and local authorities' broad assessments of people sleeping rough at 1 April 1997.
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Households in temporary accommodation1 Households on the housing register2 People sleeping rough2 Barking and Dagenham 272 1,422 No estimate Barnet 623 2,975 21–30 Bexley 171 3,175 0–10 Brent 3,079 12,974 31–40 Bromley 164 2,380 0–10 Camden 1,574 7,456 41–50 City of London 38 724 31–40 Croydon 1,154 5,038 31–40 Ealing 801 10,705 41–50 Enfield 1,345 3,029 No estimate Greenwich 245 7,693 0–10 Hackney 895 10,941 11–20 Hammersmith and Fulham n/a 5,912 21–30 Haringey n/a 5,301 0–10 Harrow 789 1,926 0–10 Havering 47 2,242 No estimate Hillingdon 1,224 3,395 21–30 Hounslow 325 6,564 21–30 Islington 633 10,950 11–20 Kensington and Chelsea 517 5,554 21–30 Kingston upon Thames n/a 2,161 11–20 Lambeth 1,036 10,263 31–40 Lewisham n/a 12,337 No estimate Merton 43 2,521 No estimate Newham n/a 10,281 No estimate Redbridge 504 2,107 No estimate Richmond upon Thames 266 2,684 31–40 Southwark n/a 3,749 0–10 Sutton n/a 2,346 0–10 Tower Hamlets n/a 7,955 51+ Waltham Forest 748 8,000 0–10 Wandsworth 426 2,662 No estimate Westminster n/a 3,658 51+ 1 Source: PIE returns 2 Source: HIP1 returns n/a = not available
The numbers in temporary accommodation reflect households with immediate housing needs while those on the register cover them and households with a more general need.