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Figures in Table 2 above exclude households who were immediately provided with settled accommodation.

Homelessness: Children in Care

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether he has made an estimate of the number of homeless people who were formerly children in care in each of the last 10 years. [307491]

Mr. Ian Austin: Information about English local housing authorities' actions under the homelessness legislation (part 7 of the Housing Act 1996) is collected at local authority level, and published by the Department in the quarterly Statistical Release on Statutory Homelessness, available both in the Library and via the CLG website:

http://wwwcommunities.gov.uk/housing/housingresearch/housingstatistics/housingstatisticsby/homelessnessstatistics/publicationshomelessness/

Data collected include the number of households accepted by local housing authorities as eligible for assistance, unintentionally homeless and in priority need, and therefore owed a main homelessness duty (to secure that suitable accommodation is available). If a settled home is not immediately available, the authority must secure temporary accommodation until a settled home becomes available.

The data include the number of applicants accepted by local authorities aged 18 to 20 and previously in care and the number of applicants aged 21 or over and vulnerable as a result of time spent in care. The total number of acceptances in these two categories since 2003-04 is given in the table below.

Year( 1)	Number of homeless households in priority need accepted by local authorities who were formerly children in care
2003-04	1,560
2004-05	1,500
2005-06	1,270
2006-07	980
2007-08	820
2008-09	770
(1) The table does not give figures for 2002-03 as data are only available from July 2002; to March 2003, thus we do not have a figure for the entire 2002-03 financial year.

Homelessness: Young People

John McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what information his Department holds on the level of financial assistance provided by each London borough to young people seeking permanent accommodation in each year since 2005. [307014]

Mr. Ian Austin: The Department provides a homelessness grant to local authorities and the voluntary sector to help them prevent and tackle homelessness in their areas. This grant helps assist people of all ages and a proportion of this money will be spent on young people based on a local authority's need. We cannot disaggregate actual spend on young people, but in England in the last quarter, 39 per cent. of households accepted as owed a main homelessness duty were aged 16 to 24 years.

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£
Local authority	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11
London
Barking and Dagenham	100,000	100,000	100,000
Barnet	160,000	160,000	160,000
Bexley	100,000	100,000	100,000
Brent	805,000	805,000	805,000
Bromley	135,000	135,000	135,000
Camden	1,600,000	1,600,000	1,600,000
City of London	295,000	295,000	295,000
Croydon Council	550,000	550,000	550,000
Ealing	640,000	640,000	640,000
Enfield	250,000	250,000	250,000
Greenwich	180,000	180,000	180,000
Hackney	590,000	590,000	590,000
Hammersmith and Fulham	1,232,000	1,232,000	1,232,000
Haringey	250,000	250,000	250,000
Harrow	200,000	200,000	200,000
Havering	100,000	100,000	100,000
Hillingdon	100,000	100,000	100,000
Hounslow	240,000	240,000	240,000
Islington	380,000	380,000	380,000
Kensington and Chelsea	1,168,000	1,168,000	1,168,000
Kingston upon Thames	120,000	120,000	120,000
Lambeth	2,050,000	2,050,000	2,050,000
Lewisham	190,000	190,000	190,000
Merton	120,000	120,000	120,000
Newham	300,000	300,000	300,000
Redbridge	100,000	100,000	100,000
Richmond	400,000	400,000	400,000
Southwark	1,150,000	1,150,000	1,150,000
Sutton	200,000	200,000	200,000
Tower Hamlets	880,000	880,000	880,000
Waltham Forest	280,000	280,000	280,000
Wandsworth	330,000	330,000	330,000
Westminster	6,600,000	6,600,000	6,600,000
Total London	21,795,000	21,795,000	21,795,000

The Supporting People programme provides revenue funds for local authorities to commission housing-related support services for vulnerable people in their area, to enable them to develop independent living skills.

It is a locally managed and delivered programme. Local authorities are responsible for making the strategic decisions regarding the programme including deciding what services to commission to meet local needs and priorities.

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Supporting People for the three young person primary client groups in London boroughs
£
2005-06
Administering authority name	Young people at risk	Young people leaving care	Teenage parents	Total
London	25,196,536	5,220,292	3,545,406	33,962,234
Camden	2,074,830	69,416	16,541	2,160,787
City of London	455,508	0	0	455,508
Hackney	1,282,026	67,382	226,323	1,575,732
Hammersmith and Fulham	833,373	180,737	45,755	1,059,865
Haringey	770,357	272,716	69,889	1,112,963
Islington	1,183,604	69,022	105,142	1,357,768
Kensington and Chelsea	1,059,929	289,916	31,821	1,381,666
Lambeth	1,173,123	31,401	501,915	1,706,439
Lewisham	830,625	394,059	338,946	1,563,630
Newham	1,306,717	428	172,526	1,479,671
Southwark	1,948,254	142,641	187,219	2,278,113
Tower Hamlets	867,679	392,308	81,032	1,341,019
Wandsworth	641,010	527,616	220,337	1,388,963
Westminster	2,331,643	524,346	38,310	2,894,300
Barking and Dagenham	0	0	61,412	61,412
Barnet	720,362	0	91,086	811,449
Bexley	30,437	37,951	12,813	81,200
Brent	440,183	106,958	180,349	727,491
Bromley	234,362	265,751	62,116	562,230
Croydon	1,210,053	263,361	118,850	1,592,263
Ealing	978,057	542,101	57,657	1,577,814
Enfield	927,004	24,000	308,361	1,259,365
Greenwich	1,267,926	218,416	187,166	1,673,508
Harrow	116,397	196,228	43,978	356,602
Havering	0	20,083	52,011	72,094
Hillingdon	485,476	196,167	48,418	730,061
Hounslow	442,722	107,901	0	550,623
Kingston upon Thames	255,415	0	64,291	319,706
Merton	189,940	13,772	38,325	242,037
Redbridge	507,181	36,970	0	544,150
Richmond upon Thames	129,300	48,829	34,203	212,332
Sutton	269,713	159,231	146,145	575,089
Waltham Forest	233,331	20,586	2,468	256,385

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