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Homelessness
Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what recent estimate he has made of the number of homeless people in (a) Ribble Valley constituency, (b) Lancashire and (c) England. [323178]
Mr. Ian Austin: Information on the number of households accepted by local housing authorities as owed a main homelessness duty is published in the first supplementary table of the Department's quarterly statistical release on statutory homelessness. This is available in both the Library of the House and via the CLG website:
The information is collected and published at local authority level. Lancashire comprises the following local housing authorities: Burnley, Chorley, Fylde, Hyndburn, Lancaster, Pendle, Preston, Ribble Valley, Rossendale, South Ribble, West Lancashire and Wyre. The information is not collected at constituency level.
Information is also collected and reported on the number of people who sleep rough-that is, those who
are literally roofless on a single night. Local authority data and count guidance can be found on the CLG website:
Homelessness: Leeds
Greg Mulholland: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much funding his Department has allocated under the hostels improvement programme to (a) Leeds City Council and (b) voluntary sector organisations in Leeds in the last 12 months. [323827]
Mr. Ian Austin: Leeds city council has received £100,000 funding for hostel capital improvement under what is now called the Places of Change Programme for The Crypt Project run by St. George's Crypt. This is in addition to the £988,568 that was provided to the scheme in March 2008. In May 2009, £15,000 was allocated to the voluntary sector organisation Create CiC Ltd. in order to set up a social enterprise community interest company (called Found by Create) which works with homeless people in Leeds.
The Places of Change Programme will provide £80 million to 90 projects in 62 local authority areas in England to make hostels and other homelessness facilities for homeless people more dynamic places with an emphasis on helping move to independent living and paid employment.
Homelessness: Young People
Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate he has made of the number of young people who have left their family home without having in place arrangements to live independently in the last 12 months. [323177]
Mr. Ian Austin: Information on young people who have left their family home without having in place arrangements to live independently is not held centrally. Information is collected on the number of households accepted by local housing authorities as owed a main homelessness duty by primary priority need category. In 2009 being a young person (aged 16 or 17) was the primary reason for priority need for 2,490 households accepted, 6 per cent. of all acceptances.
Housing
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the ratio of median quintile house prices to lowest quintile earnings was in 2009. [315664]
Mr. Ian Austin: The information requested can be found on the Land Registry and ONS websites.
Housing: Databases
Robert Neill: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 6 January 2010, Official Report, column 371W, on housing: databases, if he will place in the Library a copy of the cross-reference table produced by Ordnance Survey; and which bodies produce unique address identifiers that are included in the cross-reference look-up table. [323197]
Mr. Ian Austin: The bodies which produce the unique address identifiers included in the cross-reference look-up table are Royal Mail, Ordnance Survey and the Valuation Office Agency. A copy of the cross-reference table is available free of charge from Ordnance Survey at:
or by telephone on 08456 05 05 05.
Local Authorities: Expenditure
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) how much local authorities spent on (a) children and families services and (b) other adult care in (i) cash and (ii) real-terms in 2009 figures according to revenue account budget estimates data held by his Department in each year since 1997; [323227]
(2) how much local authorities spent on public conveniences in (a) cash and (b) real-terms in 2009 figures, according to revenue account budget estimates data held by his Department in each year since 1997; [323310]
(3) how much local authorities spent on waste collection in (a) cash and (b) real-terms in 2009 figures, according to revenue account budget estimates data held by his Department in each year since 1997; [323311]
(4) how much local authorities spent on street cleaning in (a) cash and (b) 2009 real-terms figures, in each year since 1997 according to revenue account budget estimates data held by his Department; [323312]
(5) how much local authorities spent on culture and heritage in (a) cash and (b) 2009 real-terms figures in each year since 1997 according to revenue account budget estimates data held by his Department. [323313]
Barbara Follett: The information requested, as reported by local authorities in England, is tabled as follows.
| Real terms (at 2008-09 prices) | ||||||||
| £ million | ||||||||
| Asylum seekers( 1) | Strategy( 1) | |||||||
| Children and families services | Other adult care | Children | Adult | Total | Children | Adult | Total | |
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