Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of children in temporary accommodation in each of the last five years.

Temporary accommodation ensures that no child is left without a roof over their head.

My Deparment publishes regular statistics on rough sleeping, statutory homelessness and homelessness prevention and relief in England. These are published at a local authority level. Statistics for each of the past five years can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics.