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 families with children living in temporary accommodation in (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) England in each of the last five years.

The numbers of households with dependent children living in temporary accommodation in Coventry, the West Midlands and England, as at 31 March each year for the last five years, are shown in the table below.

This compares to the 72,670 households with dependent children or pregnant women living in temporary accommodation in England in 2005, when the total number of households in temporary accommodation was at its peak.