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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many (a) statutory and (b) non-statutory homeless people there are in (i) England and (ii) Liverpool.

The figures are published in (i) Live Table 770 and (ii) Detailed local authority level homelessness figures: July to September 2014, both of which are available to download from https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness as well as Table 1 available to download from https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/rough-sleeping-in-england-autumn-2014

This Government is committed to preventing and tackling homelessness. We have increased homelessness prevention spending, making over £500 million available since 2010 to local authorities and the voluntary sector to help the most vulnerable in society.

Homelessness remains lower than in 27 of the last 30 years. It is around half the average level it was under the last Labour Government.