Communities and Local Government written question – answered at on 30 November 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate he has made of the number of homelessness acceptances there have been since 2009-10 where the end of an assured shorthold tenancy is the cause of homelessness.
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 a summary is 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:
Breakdowns are collected of the reasons for loss of last settled home and the data are published in the table at the following link.
http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/statistics/xls/1984198.xls
Included are the number of households owed the main homelessness duty for which an end of an assured shorthold tenancy was the reason for loss of last settled home.
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