§ Mr. Clifton-BrownTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions if he will publish the figures for rough sleeping for each local authority area in England that are available, with the relevant HiP estimates, for each year since 1996 for which figures are available. [22054]
§ Ms Keeble[holding answer 10 December 2001]: The first national estimate of rough sleeping in England, combining information from local authority Housing Investment Programme (HIP) estimates and the results of head counts of people sleeping rough was reported in a written answer to a parliamentary question from my hon. Friend the Member for Luton, South (Margaret Moran) on 19 May 1999, Official Report, column 357W. It provided a national estimate of the number of people sleeping rough on a single night as at June 1998.
Tables showing the local authority HIP estimates and results of street counts for 1998,1999,2000 and the latest figures for 2001 have been placed in the Library. Local authorities not listed in the tables for those years submitted either an estimate of 0–10 or no estimate in their HIP returns.
798WTables showing HIP figures submitted by all local authorities in 1996 and 1997 have also been placed in the Library.