Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 6 June 2019 to Question 259337 on Prisoners' Release: Children, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of calculating how many children were released from prison into homelessness in each year between 2010 and 2018.

There would be a need to check the c.20,300 individual records of children released since 2010 to obtain their accommodation status. We estimate that it would take around five minutes to check each record, which equates to a cost of approximately £42,000. This does not include the time required to engage with Local Authorities where necessary.