Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what estimate he has made of the number of veterans in the UK who are homeless in each year since 2019.
The Government is committed to tackling all forms of homelessness and levels of veteran homelessness are low. Data shows that for the year 2020-21, 1,730 veterans were owed a homelessness duty out of the 268,560 total households who were homeless or at risk of homelessness. This is down from 1,920 households in 2019-20
The data is not yet available for 2021-22.