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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the number of children in temporary accommodation in (a) Poplar and Limehouse constituency, (b) London and (c) the UK since 2010.

The number of children in temporary accommodation in London can be found in the published live tables on homelessness: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness.

Statistics from April 2018 onward can be found in tab TA1 of the Detailed local authority level tables. Statistics between 2010 to March 2018 can be found under discontinued tables in Section 6 of the Detailed local authority level responses.

The data we collect is for all local authorities in England. We do not collect information on constituency level data or data for the rest of the UK.

In December 2019 we announced the allocation of £263 million in funding for 2020/21 to local authorities designed to support them to deliver services to tackle homelessness. The purpose of this funding is to give local authorities more control and flexibility in managing homelessness pressures and supporting those who at risk of homelessness, including providing them with temporary accommodation.