Homelessness: EU Nationals

(asked on 2nd November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many homeless EU citizens have been offered voluntary assisted return in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Brandon Lewis Portrait
Brandon Lewis
This question was answered on 8th November 2017

Please find attached a link to the published statistics on the take up of voluntary returns over the period requested, including by EU nationals:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/638602/returns1-apr-jun-2017-tables.ods

The Home Office does not hold data on whether individuals were rough sleepers in a reportable format. Such information could not be retrieved except by a manual inspection of every applicable personal record. This is likely to incur costs over the cost threshold.

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