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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the average length of stay for people placed in temporary accommodation in each local authority area in each of the last five years.

Time spent in temporary accommodation means people are getting help and it ensures no family is without a roof over their head.

MHCLG publishes regular statistics on rough sleeping, statutory homelessness, temporary accommodation and homelessness prevention and relief. These are published at national, London and local authority level . The latest statistics can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics

We are overhauling the statutory homelessness data collection, as part of the implementation of the Homelessness Reduction Act, to give us better insights into the causes of homelessness and the support people need.