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Written question asked by Robert Buckland (Conservative) on Friday, 1 July 2011, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 5 July 2011. It was answered by James Brokenshire (Conservative) on Monday, 11 July 2011 on behalf of the Home Office.

Drug Interventions Programme

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what estimate he has made of the number of (a) homeless people and (b) people with no fixed address registered with the Drug Interventions Programme in the last 12 months.
Answer

I have been asked to reply.The Drug Interventions Programme (DIP) is a crime reduction approach which local areas use to identify, assess and manage drug misusing offenders in order to help them address their drug misuse and reduce drug related offending.Information on individuals' housing needs are collected as part of the DIP assessment of needs.Over the latest 12 months for which data is available (May 2010-April 2011), 62,490 assessments were carried out and 61,677 (99%) had an accommodation status recorded, as follows:

Number Percentage
No fixed abode 4,598 7.5
Temporary 10,623 17.2
Settled 46,456 75.35

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
64158; 531 c77W
Session
2010-12
Subjects
Drug interventions programme
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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