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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of the Government recording homeless death statistics at a national level.

No one should ever have to sleep rough and the death of any rough sleeper is a tragedy. As part of our Rough Sleeping Strategy, we will be considering a wide range of options to support rough sleepers to meet our commitment, which will include the data we gather on them.