§ Mr. LoveTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what his latest estimate is of the number of homeless families in(a) temporary accommodation and (b) bed and breakfast accommodation in (i) Greater London, (ii) Birmingham and (iii) Manchester; and if he will make a statement. [139432]
§ Mr. MullinInformation on households accommodated under statutory homelessness provisions of the 1985 and 1996 Housing Acts in England is published in a quarterly Information Bulletin (to be called Statistical Release in future), "Statuary Homelessness Statistics".
Tables 5 and 6 of the Bulletin present a national and London summary of the number of households in accommodation arranged by local authorities as at the end of each quarter, while Table 8 sets out available information at London borough level. Supplementary tables present key information reported by each local authority, including the numbers in bed and breakfast and in other forms of temporary accommodation.
Copies are held in the Library and the latest edition, published on 12 September, covers statistics up to and including the second quarter of 2000.