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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many households that were placed in temporary accommodation in the last 12 months by the London Borough of Southwark outside the London Borough of Southwark were households with dependent children.

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.