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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent estimate he has made of the number of young people who are living in emergency or temporary accommodation provided by (a) local authorities and (b) the voluntary sector.

Local authorities reported that there were 330 applicant households headed by 16 and 17 year olds in temporary accommodation arranged by authorities at 31 March 2015. This compares to 3,140 when this data was first collected in 2007. This is the only information reported on young people from households in temporary accommodation. No figures are held on the numbers in accommodation provided by the voluntary sector.