Homelessness

HC Deb 07 December 1999 vol 340 c481W

Ms Oona King

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what plans he has to commission research on the needs of older single homeless people accommodated and rehoused via local authority homeless services. [101186]

Mr. Mullin

Data are already collected on older households accepted as homeless by local authorities. Overall, the total number of such households has declined from 6,060 in 1993–94 to 3,700 in 1998–99. During this same period the proportion of these households, compared to other households accepted as homeless, has declined from five per cent. to four per cent.¹

The Department has no plans for additional data collection or research in this area at present. ¹ DETR, Information Bulletin, September 1999, Statistics of Local Authority Activities Under the Homelessness Legislation: England Second Quarter of 1999.