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Homelessness: Pendle

Answer

Information about English local housing authorities' actions under the homelessness legislation (part 7 of the Housing Act 1996) is collected quarterly at local authority level. Data collected include all decisions made on applications by eligible applicants, and the number of applicants accepted by local housing authorities as eligible for assistance, unintentionally homeless and in priority need, and therefore owed a main homelessness duty (to secure that suitable accommodation is available). These households are known as 'accepted' households. If a settled home is not immediately available, the authority must secure temporary accommodation until a settled home becomes available.Although figures at parliamentary constituency level are not held centrally for most constituencies, the boundary of the Pendle constituency is coterminous with that of the area covered by Pendle borough council, for which figures are held centrally. A table summarising homelessness figures for the past five years, for Pendle borough council, including (a) the total number of households accepted as owed the main homelessness duty, and (b) the total number, of households in temporary accommodation are provided as follows.

	Number of households accepted¹ as owed a main homelessness duty during the year	Number of households in temporary accommodation² at the end of the financial year (31 March)
2006-07	25	6
2007-08	31	3
2008-09	18	7
2009-10	21	0
2010-11	34	0
¹ Households eligible under homelessness legislation, found to be unintentionally homeless and in a priority need category, and consequently owed a main homelessness duty.
² Households in accommodation either pending a decision on their homelessness application or awaiting allocation of a settled home following acceptance.
Source:
DCLG P1E Homelessness returns (quarterly)

Quarterly statistical releases on Statutory Homelessness are available both in the Library of the House and via the DCLG website:"http://www.communities.gov.uk/housing/housingresearch/housingstatistics/housingstatisticsby/homelessnessstatistics/publicationshomelessness/"I recently announced additional funding of £70 million this year to tackle and prevent rough sleeping and prevent repossessions. This comes on top of the existing £400 million homelessness grant this Government have protected over the next four years.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

98355; 542 c395W

Session

2010-12

Subjects

Homelessness Pendle

Link

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