To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what information his Department holds on the number of people who were homeless in (a) Liverpool Walton constituency, (b) Liverpool, (c) Liverpool City Region, (d) the North West and (e) England in each year from 2005 to date.
Answered on
24 October 2017
DCLG publishes regular statistics on rough sleeping, statutory homelessness and homelessness prevention and relief in England. These are published at a local authority level.
The latest statistics can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics.
The Government remains committed to reducing homelessness and rough sleeping. No one should ever have to sleep rough. That is why we are aiming to halve rough sleeping by 2022 and eliminate it altogether by 2027. To achieve this, we will set up a new homelessness reduction taskforce that will focus on prevention and affordable housing, and we will pilot a Housing First approach to tackle entrenched rough sleeping.
We are also implementing in April 2018 the most ambitious legislative reform in decades, the Homelessness Reduction Act, which will ensure that more people get the help they need earlier to prevent them from becoming homeless in the first place.