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Mr. Letwin: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) how many advertisements placed on behalf of her Department in relation to home improvement packs have been cancelled; [142691]

(2) how many advertisements have been placed on behalf of her Department in relation to home improvement packs. [142692]

Yvette Cooper: Between April 2006 and May 2007 the Department placed a total of 852 advertisements in the press and relevant magazines—of these, a total of 538 were in magazines or newspapers published before the announcement on 22 May.

299 advertisements have now been re-scheduled and will be used to promote the phased introduction of home information packs on 1 August.

15 adverts went to print before the announcement was made but are in publications appearing after 22 May. It would be irresponsible for the Government not to inform people about this important change to the way homes are bought and sold. It is vital consumer information.

Mr. Holloway: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much has been spent on the marketing and advertising campaign to promote home information packs and energy performance certificates in the south-east Government office region. [143048]

Yvette Cooper: The Department has spent £82,335 on the promotion of home information packs and energy performance certificates in the south-east Government office region.


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Homelessness

Mr. Swire: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate she has made of the number of homeless people, broken down by constituency. [142325]

Yvette Cooper: Information about local authorities’ actions under homelessness legislation is collected quarterly at local authority level, in respect of households rather than people.

Information reported each quarter by local authorities about their activities under homelessness legislation includes the number of households accepted by local authorities as eligible for assistance, unintentionally homeless and in priority need, and therefore owed a main homelessness duty. The duty owed to an accepted household 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.

The data are published in our quarterly statistical release on statutory homelessness, which includes a supplementary table showing the breakdown of key data, including acceptances and temporary accommodation, by each local authority. This is published on our website and placed in the Library each quarter. The latest release was published on 11 June 2007 and contains data for the period January to March 2007:

Since 1998, information has also been collected on the number of people who sleep rough—that is, those who are literally roofless on a single night—and these are also published on our website, by local authority.

Summary tables showing the total number of households (a) accepted under homelessness provisions and (b) in temporary accommodation, from 1997-98 to 2006-07, and (c) rough sleeper estimates from 1998 onwards, for each local authority are provided with this answer and have been placed in the Library.

Ms Buck: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) what proportion of all lettings in (a) each London local authority and (b) across all local authorities were let to homeless households in each of the last five years; [142425]

(2) what proportion of all registered social landlord lettings, excluding sheltered and supported housing, were let to homeless households in (a) each London local authority and (b) in England in each of the last five years. [142426]

Yvette Cooper: The main sources of data on total lettings and lettings to homeless households are:

The proportions of all RSL lettings (excluding sheltered and supported housing) to statutorily homeless households in each London borough for the past five years are provided in the following tables.


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A household is found to be statutorily homeless by a local authority if it is eligible for assistance, unintentionally homeless (or threatened with homelessness) and in priority need. The main duty owed to households accepted as being statutory homeless is to secure suitable accommodation.

(i) Proportion of all registered social landlords lettings (excluding supported and sheltered housing) let to statutorily homeless households by London borough
Percentage
2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06

Barking and Dagenham

3

4

3

5

2

Barnet

19

21

16

14

12

Bexley

27

25

22

23

17

Brent

24

33

30

29

24

Bromley

34

43

38

44

47

Camden

12

10

16

14

15

City of London

8

11

0

0

0

Croydon

22

28

28

27

36

Ealing

22

27

16

18

17

Enfield

20

31

17

19

22

Greenwich

9

7

7

7

8

Hackney

19

20

17

24

26

Hammersmith and Fulham

22

23

24

25

19

Haringey

35

32

30

17

20

Harrow

39

26

28

12

26

Havering

7

4

5

17

2

Hillingdon

39

34

21

25

34

Hounslow

24

27

26

30

23

Islington

21

23

23

10

13

Kensington and Chelsea

28

26

33

24

18

Kingston upon Thames

25

38

21

31

32

Lambeth

31

23

30

21

20

Lewisham

17

19

14

19

26

Merton

13

15

14

26

31

Newham

14

18

12

10

11

Redbridge

17

14

20

10

8

Richmond upon Thames

32

35

38

47

50

Southwark

25

18

20

15

14

Sutton

16

20

8

13

21

Tower Hamlets

19

17

18

23

23

Waltham Forest

28

25

22

16

15

Wandsworth

14

19

17

21

22

Westminster

26

22

27

18

24

London average

23

24

22

22

23

England

12

13

14

15

17

Source:
RSL CORE data
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