Hostel Beds

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Environment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 27 February 1991.

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Photo of George Young George Young Minister (Department of Environment) (Housing) 12:00, 27 February 1991

The latest estimates available show that the total number of hostel bed spaces in housing association hostels, resettlement units, probation and after-care hostels and those run by local authorities in London is 22,383, and 60,142 in England as a whole. My Department does not hold figures for the rest of the United Kingdom. I take this opportunity to thank the voluntary agencies for their hard work in developing the additional places now coming forward under the rough sleepers initiative and for their help in ensuring that the cold weather emergency provision continues to remain open for an extended period.