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Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many single vulnerable households were accepted as homeless in the Ribble Valley in each of the last five years. [84755]
Yvette Cooper [holding answer 13 July 2006]: Information about local authorities' actions under homelessness legislation is collected quarterly, at local authority level. The parliamentary constituency of the Ribble Valley shares its boundaries with those of Ribble Valley district council.
Statistical returns distinguish the number of households accepted as eligible for assistance, and unintentionally homeless according to the main category of priority need the applicant falls within. The returns do not identify the number of people in the household. Information reported by Ribble Valley in each year since 2001-02 is summarised in the following table:
| Households accepted by Ribble Valley district council as eligible, unintentionally homeless and in a priority need category | ||||
| Total households | Of which: containing dependent children | Of which: containing an expectant mother | Applicant of family member vulnerable( 1) | |
| (1)
As well as applicants, or members of their household,
considered vulnerable, figures also include households homeless in an
emergency, applicants aged 16 or 17 years old, and applicants formerly
in care and aged 18 to 20 years
old. Source DCLG P1E Homelessness
returns
(quarterly) | ||||
Jeremy Corbyn: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many people were (a) homeless and (b) placed in emergency accommodation in (i) each of the past five years and (ii) 2006-07 to date; and how many (A) new local authority lettings, (B) new housing association lettings and (C) sales under right-to-buy took place in each borough in each year. [84944]
Yvette Cooper: Information about local authorities’ actions under homelessness legislation, which is collected in respect of households rather than persons, is summarised in a quarterly Statistical Release, the latest of which was published by the Department for Communities and Local Government on 12 June.
Copies of the Statistical Release and tables are available in the Library, and from the DCLG website at:
http://www.communities.gov.uk/index.asp?id=l002882&PressNoticeID=2169
(a) Table 1 of the Statistical Release provides the number of decisions on homelessness applications from eligible households in each year since 1997, distinguishing those found to be homeless. This includes those accepted by local authorities as unintentionally homeless and in a priority need category, and consequently owed a main homelessness duty.
Information is also collected by the Department on the number of people who sleep rough—that is, those who are literally roofless on a single night. These are recorded on a calendar year basis, and figures for 1998 up to the latest available figures, for 2005, are also presented on DCLG’s website, at:
http://www.communities.gov.uk/pub/132/NationalRoughSleepingEstimate2005Excel116Kb_idll50132.xls
(b) The duty owed to a person accepted as eligible for assistance, unintentionally homeless and in priority need is to secure suitable accommodation. If a settled home is not immediately available, the authority may secure temporary accommodation until a settled home becomes available. Table 6 of the Statistical Release presents those in various forms of temporary accommodation arranged by local authorities at the end of each quarter since March 1997.
The supplementary tables of the release show the results at local authority level.
No data is yet available for 2006-07. Figures for the first quarter 2006-07 will be published in September.
(A) The number of new local authority lettings in each local authority for the years 2000-01 to 2004-05 have been placed in the Library of the House. No data is available for 2005-06 or 200607.
(B) The number of new Housing Association lettings in each local authority for the years 2001/02 to 2005-06 have been placed in the Library of the House. No data is available for 2006-07.
(C) Data on the number of sales under right-to-buy are available from the DCLG website at:
http://www.communities.gov.uk/pub/383/Table648Excel545Kb_idl156383.xls
Rosie Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many homeless households in (a) West Lancashire and (b) Lancashire were (i) living in temporary accommodation and (ii) sleeping rough in each of the past five years; and how many beds were available for homeless households in each area in each year. [83550]
Yvette Cooper: Local authorities report their activities under homelessness legislation quarterly, and this includes the number of homeless households in various forms of temporary accommodation as on the last day of the quarter.
The duty owed to a person accepted as eligible for assistance, unintentionally homeless and in priority need is to secure suitable accommodation. If a settled home is not immediately available, the authority may secure temporary accommodation until a settled home becomes available. As an alternative to the provision of temporary accommodation some authorities arrange for households to remain in their current accommodation until a settled solution becomes available.
Information is also collected on the number of people who sleep rough - that is, those who are literally roofless on a single night. These are recorded on a calendar year basis, and figures for mid-year 2001 up to the latest available figures, for 2005, are also presented in the following tables.
(a) The West Lancashire constituency is wholly contained in the West Lancashire local authority, although the authority also contains part of the South Ribble constituency. Temporary accommodationand rough sleeping figures for the entire West Lancashire authority for the last 5 years are in the following table:
| (i) Homeless households in temporary accommodation arranged by West Lancashire district council, and (ii) the number of rough sleepers in West Lancashire | ||
| Number of households in temporary accommodation( 1) (31 March snapshot) | Number of rough sleepers, people, mid-year (June) estimate( 2) | |
| (1)
Households in accommodation at the end of the year (March) either
pending a decision on their homelessness application or awaiting
allocation of a settled home following acceptance. Excludes those
households designated as “homeless at home” that have
remained in their existing accommodation and have the same rights to
suitable alternative accommodation as those in accommodation arranged
by the authority. (2) Number of persons sleeping
rough are based on local authority counts during the year and presented
as a mid-year estimate. If no count takes place during the year an
estimate is given by the local
authority. Source: DCLG P1E Homelessness
(quarterly) and HSSA (annual)
returns. | ||
(b) The geographical county of Lancashire is made up of 12 district authorities and 2 unitary authorities, Blackburn and Darwen and Blackpool. The totals are in the following table:
| (i) Homeless households in temporary accommodation arranged by local authorities in Lancashire, and (ii) the number of rough sleepers in Lancashire | ||||||
| Number of households in temporary accommodation( 1) (31 March snapshot) | o.w. Unitary authority | o.w. LA districts | Number of rough sleepers, people, mid-year (June) estimate( 2) | o.w. Unitary authority | o.w. LA districts | |
| (1)
Households in accommodation at the end of the year (March) either
pending a decision on their homelessness application or awaiting
allocation of a settled home following acceptance. Excludes those
households designated as “homeless at home” that have
remained in their existing accommodation and have the same rights to
suitable alternative accommodation as those in accommodation arranged
by the authority. (2) Number of persons sleeping rough are
based on local authority counts during the year and presented as a
mid-year estimate. If no count takes place during the year an estimate
is given by the local authority. Source: DCLG
P1E Homelessness (quarterly) and HSSA (annual)
returns. | ||||||
Information on the number of beds available for homeless households is not held centrally.
Rosie Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many people have been in temporary accommodation in West Lancashire in each of the last 10 years. [83553]
Yvette Cooper: Local authorities report their activities under homelessness legislation quarterly, and this includes the number of homeless households in various forms of temporary accommodation as on the last day of the quarter.
The duty owed to a person accepted as eligible for assistance, unintentionally homeless and in priority need is to secure suitable accommodation. If a settled home is not immediately available, the authority may secure temporary accommodation until a settled home becomes available. As an alternative to the provision of temporary accommodation some authorities arrange for households to remain in their current accommodation (homeless at home), until a settled solution becomes available.
The West Lancashire constituency is wholly contained in the West Lancashire local authority, although the authority also contains part of the South Ribble constituency. Figures for the entire West Lancashire authority for the last 10 years are tabled as follows:
| Homeless households in temporary accommodation arranged by West Lancashire district council | |
| 31 March | Number( 1) |
| (1)
Households in accommodation at the end of the year (March) either
pending a decision on their homelessness application or awaiting
allocation of a settled home following acceptance. Excludes those
households designated as “homeless at home” that have
remained in their existing accommodation and have the same rights to
suitable alternative accommodation as those in accommodation arranged
by the authority. Source: DCLG P1E
Homelessness (quarterly)
returns. | |
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