Bed-and-breakfast Accommodation

HC Deb 20 July 2001 vol 372 c545W

Mr. Boris Johnson

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions how many homeless people were accepted into bed-and-breakfast accommodation in(a) south Oxfordshire and (b) England in each of the last five years. [6096]

Ms Keeble

Information reported by South Oxfordshire district council on the number of households resident in bed-and-breakfast hotels under statutory homelessness provisions on 31 March in each of the last five years is given in the table:

Homeless households resident in bed and breakfast accommodation1 as at 31 March
	South Oxfordshire	England
1997	33	4,100
1998	55	4,990
1999	28	7,460
2000	25	8,700
2001	47	10,830
1 Includes households accommodated pending completion of inquiries by the local authorities.

Source:

DETR P1(E) housing return (quarterly)