Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of homeless people were (a) men and (b) women in the latest period for which figures are available.

Homelessness statistics can be found in the live tables published by the department here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness

Table 780 shows that in April to June 2016, of 15,170 households accepted as homeless in England, 8,410 were female one person or lone parent households, 2,410 were male one person or lone parent households, and the remaining 4,350 were couples or other household types. Table 782 shows that of the 73,120 households in temporary accommodation in England at 30 June 2016, 38,220 were female one person or lone parent households, 10,050 were male one person or lone parent households, and the remaining 24,850 were couples or other household types.

CHAIN data for London shows that during 2015/16, 15% of people seen sleeping rough were female.