Asked by: Owen Smith (Labour - Pontypridd)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the reasons for the increase in the number of people relying on temporary accommodation since 2010.
Answered by Marcus Jones
Provision of temporary accommodation ensures that homeless households in priority need are not left without a roof over their heads.
We have provided more than £500 million since 2010 to support local authorities and the voluntary and community sector to tackle and prevent homelessness. This has helped prevent homelessness for 935,000 households.
Households leaving temporary accommodation now spend, on average, 7 months less in temporary accommodation than they did in 2010.
The numbers of households in temporary accommodation remain well below their peak, when they hit 101,000 in 2004.
Asked by: Owen Smith (Labour - Pontypridd)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people aged between 18 and 21 are designated as homeless in (a) Wales, (b) England and (c) Scotland.
Answered by Marcus Jones
The Department's statistics show that 13,490 households where the main applicant was aged 16 to 24 years old were accepted as statutorily homeless in England during the financial year 2014/15. Figures are not available for 18 to 21 year olds.
Homelessness for Wales and Scotland is a devolved matter.