HC Deb 14 May 2004 vol 421 cc648-9W
Simon Hughes

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many homeless families there were in each Greater London borough, in each of the last seven years. [173294]

Yvette Cooper

The latest available information reported to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister about the number of households accepted by each of the London boroughs as eligible for assistance, unintentionally homeless and in priority need is tabled as follows.

Households accepted as homeless and in priority need
1997–981 1998–991 1999–20001 2000–011 2001–021 2002–031 20032
Southwark 884 1,204 1,614 1,703 1,317 1,857 1,671
Sutton 274 299 513 429 474 429 344
Tower Hamlets 971 1,070 1,130 1,282 1,400 1,617 1,701
Waltham Forest 880 1,048 856 1,024 1,121 1,140 1,048
Wandsworth 440 613 758 886 926 1,072 1,095
Westminster 1,124 1,266 1,152 1,075 1,154 1,074 1,060
London total 24,330 26,750 28,580 29,810 28,800 30,010 32,300

of which: Households with dependent children or a pregnant woman
1997–981 1998–991 1999–20001 2000–011 2001–021 2002–031 20032
Barking and Dagenham 36 169 160 165 229 339 3
Barnet 672 797 878 756 795 528 613
Bexley 192 217 206 285 377 376 278
Brent 618 663 714 719 905 774 707
Bromley 477 574 607 644 587 565 564
Camden 805 934 836 631 676 749 798
City of London 40 50 61 9 6 14 11
Croydon 662 609 903 1,397 892 935 1,034
Baling 850 759 763 826 680 779 901
Enfield 594 624 678 876 941 875 814
Greenwich 849 981 899 899 875 690 660
Hackney 451 535 780 605 691 847 3
Hammersmith and Fulham 455 556 735 681 531 533 3
Haringey 921 764 1,351 989 775 918 3
Harrow 575 574 512 513 327 286 232
Havering 227 311 107 157 125 135 281
Hillingdon 842 909 512 793 722 570 554
Hounslow 502 741 706 710 745 548 407
Islington 506 622 699 855 780 602 3
Kensington and Chelsea 334 324 312 361 277 256 264
Kingston upon Thames 292 295 245 285 282 278 233
Lambeth 489 680 808 798 982 985 852
Lewisham 729 908 1,106 746 799 818 1,134
Merton 147 160 173 32 109 103 106
Newham 808 884 1,144 1,196 982 1,048 1,027
Redbridge 235 230 353 380 368 100 3
Richmond upon Thames 415 420 239 213 260 156 176
Southwark 528 711 1,006 1,085 787 1,117 1,048
Sutton 190 182 353 261 278 237 164
Tower Hamlets 699 824 825 917 1,048 1,153 1,131
Waltham Forest 679 865 721 825 931 900 815
Wandsworth 333 469 558 610 575 647 664
Westminster 593 696 669 628 595 578 537
London total 16,750 19,040 20,620 20,850 19,930 19,440 21,060
1 Source: ODPM Housing Investment programme return (financial year). Data for 2003–04 wil1 be available in October 2004.
2 Source: ODPM PIE homelessness returns (sum of quarterly data).
3 Data not available.

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