§ Mr. WhiteTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions for each district and unitary authority in (i) the South East Region and (ii) the Eastern Region, how many people were(a) registered homeless and (b) on the local authority waiting list for the last and current financial years. [101826]
§ Mr. MullinHomeless households accepted by local authorities are those which, after investigation, were found to be eligible for assistance, unintentionally homeless and in priority need under part VII of the Housing Act 1996. The latest available information is given in the table, covering 1998–99 and the first quarter of 1999–2000 for homeless households.
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Homeless households accepted and in priority need 1998–99 1999–20001 Number of households on the housing register at 1 April 1999 South East Region Adur 294 79 1,162 Arun 192 58 689 Ashford 89 20 2,201 Aylesbury Vale 219 65 841 Basingstoke and Deane 146 2n/a 4,245 Bracknell Forest 73 21 1,308 Brighton and Hove 868 234 3,610 Canterbury 214 57 1,920 Cherwell 138 50 2,422 Chichester 88 24 2,148 Chiltern 124 34 667 Crawley 191 51 465 Dartford 86 26 1,575 Dover 107 31 2,231 East Hampshire 116 26 1,828 Eastbourne 466 99 1,753 Eastleigh 128 26 1,200 Elmbridge 188 35 1,976 Epsom and Ewell 72 14 537 Fareham 120 21 929 Gosport 254 61 1,167 Gravesham 84 21 1,847 Guildford 118 38 1,603 Hart 58 36 588 Hastings 140 30 1,490 Havant 324 71 2,714 Horsham 221 60 710 Isle of Wight 270 69 1,122 Lewes 189 42 818 Maidstone 114 39 959 Mid Sussex 205 31 1,418 Milton Keynes 537 185 2,835 Mole Valley 83 21 1,177 New Forest 293 66 1,383 Oxford 382 2n/a 3,099 Portsmouth 670 134 4,759 Reading 464 123 3,343 Reigate and Banstead 156 28 1,155 Rother 52 10 1,176 Runnymede 58 23 694 Rushmoor 188 2n/a 2,221 Sevenoaks 201 42 1,444
Homeless households accepted and in priority need 1998–99 1999–20001 Number of households on the housing register at 1 April 1999 Shepway 128 24 2,595 Slough 213 0 1,739 South Bucks 34 6 1,064 South Oxfordshire 140 43 1,488 Southampton 663 159 3,699 Spelthorne 59 19 2,284 Surrey Heath 111 31 436 Swale 55 22 1,815 Tandridge 97 26 1,077 Test Valley 125 30 1,723 Thanet 42 13 1,528 The Medway Towns 113 38 3,708 Tonbridge and Mailing 150 45 658 Tunbridge Wells 242 55 674 Vale of White Horse 126 27 1,919 Waverley 91 14 1,288 Wealden 185 2n/a 1,066 West Berkshire 209 41 887 West Oxfordshire 38 9 1,453 Winchester 55 22 1,129 Windsor and Maidenhead 42 7 2,419 Woking 120 35 1,547 Wokingham 122 24 1,359 Worthing 218 2n/a 1,361 Wycombe 268 37 996 East of England Region Babergh 106 2n/a 1,074 Basildon 429 72 2,878 Bedford 283 84 2,449 Braintree 167 45 2,503 Breckland 156 41 1,477 Brentwood 89 22 513 Broadland 209 43 1,066 Broxbourne 376 50 1,668 Cambridge 200 48 4,319 Castle Point 153 40 662 Chelmsford 316 83 3,733 Colchester 588 169 3,237 Dacorum 223 2n/a 3,479 East Cambridgeshire 167 32 1,042 East Hertfordshire 132 31 1,502 Epping Forest 119 23 1,914 Fenland 130 31 1,839 Forest Heath 66 7 1,063 Great Yarmouth 118 30 1,915 Harlow 252 61 1,933 Hertsmere 64 10 657 Huntingdonshire 113 19 1,791 Ipswich 182 46 2,764 Kings Lynn and West Norfolk 95 33 1,390 Luton 209 41 5,622 Maldon 84 27 511 Mid Bedfordshire 73 8 1,648 Mid Suffolk 89 22 1,545 North Hertfordshire 179 65 1,955 North Norfolk 187 51 860 Norwich 459 119 2,909 Peterborough 95 25 3,129 Rochford 60 11 873 South Bedfordshire 282 66 2,649 South Cambridgeshire 67 17 2,293 South Norfolk 130 35 1,524 Southend-on-Sea 83 2n/a 1,070 St. Albans 154 2n/a 1,603 St. Edmundsbury 93 27 1,801 Stevenage 102 22 3,249 Suffolk Coastal 121 38 955 Tendring 425 106 1,960 Three Rivers 134 2n/a 818 Thurrock 163 38 1,795 Uttlesford 73 2n/a 963 Watford 176 60 1,472 Waveney 182 45 1,675 Welwyn Hatfield 262 49 2,201 1 April-June 1999 2 n/a denotes that the authority has not yet reported Source:
Housing Investment Programme returns 1999 and Quarterly P1E (Homelessness Activity) returns 1999 Q1
602WLocal authorities have different practices for compiling and managing housing register/waiting lists which mean that simple comparisons between authorities can be misleading.