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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many (a) single-headed households, (b) households with children, (c) households with pensioners, (d) households where one or more person is employed and (e) households with a disabled member were placed in temporary accommodation in the last 12 months.

The number of households in accommodation arranged by local authorities pending enquiries or after being accepted as homeless under the 1996 Act (includes residual cases awaiting re-housing under the 1985 Act) was 80,720 at the end of 2017/18. The household breakdowns are as follows:

1. One-person households: 16,110
2. Households with children: 58,230
3. All other household groups: 5,880

This information is available here https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness. Anyone placed in temporary accommodation without applying via a local authority will not be included in these figures.

Prior to April 2018, data was not collected on pensioners, the employment status and those with disabilities in temporary accommodation however, as a result of the launch of HCLIC, a homeless household case level data collection, this information will be available at the end of the 2019/20 financial year.