Communities and Local Government written question – answered at on 3 November 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many families with children applied as homeless to each English local authority in each year since 2005; and in respect of how many such families a duty was accepted.
Summary 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 of the House and via the DCLG website:
Information is collected on the number of households accepted as owed a main homelessness duty whose primary reason for priority need was the presence of children or a pregnant woman. A table showing this information for each local authority area in England in each year since 2005 has been placed in the Library of the House.
Information is not collected on the makeup of households making applications for homelessness assistance that are not accepted.
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