Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 24999
Homelessness
Tabled: 20 January 2025
Answered: 28 January 2025
Question
Jacob Collier
Labour — Burton and Uttoxeter
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to gather accurate data on the number of people sofa surfing.
Answer
Rushanara AliThe English Housing Survey does not collect data on the number of sofa surfers, but does collect data on households who hosted someone in the previous 12 months who would have otherwise been homeless, and publishes these statistics annually.The total numb...
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