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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people have been registered as homeless in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each year since 1997.

Homelessness statistics for English local authorities have been published at the following location:

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

England total figures for statutory homelessness acceptances since 1998 can be found in table 770 in the first link while figures for South Tyneside since 2004/05 can be found at the second link, table 784. Figures for acceptances in South Tyneside prior to 2004/05 are shown below;

1998/99 237

1999/00 202

2000/01 225

2001/02 321

2002/03 379

2003/04 595

Estimates are not available at a constituency or UK level. The Department does not publish regional estimates.”