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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many people that served in the armed forces were identified as statutorily homeless by local authority housing services throughout England in each year since 2010.

Our veterans have played a vital role in keeping our country safe and we owe them a duty to ensure they are provided with all the support they need to successfully adjust back into civilian life.

A person who is vulnerable as a result of having been a member of Her Majesty’s regular armed forces has a priority need for accommodation and we have put in place an additional £1 million fund to boost support on offer to vulnerable?veterans?who are, or at risk of becoming homeless.

The Department introduced a new data collection tool in 2018 to improve the information we collect from local authorities on homelessness: the Homelessness Case Level Information Collection (H-CLIC).

The figures for people that served in the armed forces identified as statutory homeless from 2018 onwards can be found in table A3 of the homeless tables:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness

Prior to 2018, the figures for levels of statutory homelessness in those who served in the armed forces can be found in the individual LA level tables (listed under discontinued tables):

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness#discontinued-tables