Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many households have been placed in emergency temporary accommodation each year since 2010.

The numbers of households categorised by local authorities as being eligible, homeless and in priority need but intentionally so, in each of the financial years since 2004/05, are shown in the first column of the attached table. The numbers of households for whom the immediate outcome of being accepted by their local authority (due to being eligible, unintentionally homeless and in priority need) was to be placed in temporary accommodation, in each of the financial years since 2004/05, are shown in the second column of the table.