To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the number of homeless persons in each year between 1976 and 1987 in each of the constituencies of Hendon, South, Mid-Worcestershire, Lancashire, West, Fylde, Staffordshire, Moorlands and Amber Valley.

Aggregate figures of homeless household accepted under the Housing Acts are reported by each local authority. Therefore, figures are available for Staffordshire, Moorlands, but not for the other five constituencies.The figures reported for 1981 to 1986 by local authorities appear in a table placed in the Library in May 1987. Corresponding earlier figures are in the following issues of "Local Housing Statistics" which are also available in the Library.

Period	Issue Number	Table Number
1976
1st half	42	11
2nd half	43	12
7977
1st half	46	11
2nd half	48	12
1978
1st and 2nd halves	52	12
1979
1st and 2nd halves	54	14
1980
1st half	59	9
2nd half	62	13

Staffordshire Moorlands district council reported 29 acceptances during the first half of 1987, but has not yet provided returns for the second half.Figures are not strictly comparable over the whole period, because of changes in the reporting system in December 1977 and, in non-metropolitan districts, from the fourth quarter of 1980.