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 by the London Borough of Southwark in the last 12 months.

653 households were placed in temporary accommodation by Southwark council in 2014. No data is held centrally on the types of households being placed in temporary accommodation.

In the calendar year 2014, 449 households left temporary accommodation in Southwark as a result of accepting an offer of accommodation, although no figures are held centrally as to whether the accommodation offered was within the Borough.