§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions on what date the most recent head count of rough sleepers took place; and what requests were made by her Department to shelter providers to extend the nights in shelter over the period of the head count. [21224]
§ Ms KeebleThe street count figures were placed in the Library of the House on 3 December 2001 and show the dates that street counts took place. Local authorities in partnership with local charities organised the latest round of street counts in England, which took place from 19 September 2001 to 29 November 2001.
The results announced on 3 December confirm the success of the Government's strategy in reducing rough sleeping by more than two-thirds ahead of time.
445WOutreach sessions occur every night including nights when there is a count, and it is never the intention at any time to move a person off the streets for only a single night.
Organisations were not asked by the RSU to keep clients in for an extra night purely for the purpose of keeping them off the streets on the night of the counts.