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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what estimate he has made of the number of families with children living in temporary accommodation in (a) Coventry North East constituency, (b) Coventry, (c) the West Midland and (d) England.

Time spent in temporary accommodation means people are getting help and it ensures no family is without a roof over their head.

The latest figures show that on 30 June 2021 the number of households with children in temporary accommodation in England was 60,490, a 3.5% reduction compared to the same quarter the previous year. The number of households with children in temporary accommodation in Coventry is 257. Data is available by local authority only and so is not available for the Coventry North East parliamentary constituency. A breakdown of the temporary accommodation figures for individual local authority areas within the West Midlands Combined Authority is available on Gov.uk at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statutory-homelessness-in-england-april-to-june-2021

The Government is committed to reducing temporary accommodation and preventing homelessness before it occurs. In 2021-22 local authorities received £375 million through the Homelessness Prevention Grant, which represents a £112 million increase on the previous year's funding, to give them the funding they need to prevent homelessness and help more people sooner.