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 homeless people in (a) Telford and (b) the UK.

DCLG publishes regular statistics on statutory homelessness. These are published at a local authority level. These latest statistics can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness.

The definitions of statutory homelessness differ in the devolved administrations so no aggregated UK total is available. Devolved administration statistics can be found at the links below:

Scotland: http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Housing-Regeneration/RefTables
Wales: http://gov.wales/docs/statistics/2015/150923-statutory-homelessness-legislative-changes-27-april-2015-en.pdf
Northern Ireland: https://www.communities-ni.gov.uk/topics/housing-statistics