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Mr. Tyler
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many people are estimated to be homeless in each English county. [36730]
Mr. Clappison
Data on households which local authorities accept responsibility to secure accommodation for under the homelessness provisions of the 1985 Housing Act are reported by local authorities districts on a quarterly basis. Total acceptances by the districts in each county for the quarter ending June 1995, the latest available are set out in the table.
| Number | |
| Avon | 580 |
| Bedfordshire | 187 |
| Berkshire | 345 |
| Buckinghamshire | 279 |
| Cambridgeshire | 243 |
| Cheshire | 1— |
| Cleveland | 481 |
| Cornwall | 210 |
| Cumbria | 111 |
| Derbyshire | 656 |
| Devon | 1— |
| Dorset | 345 |
| Durham | 162 |
| East Sussex | 587 |
| Essex | 631 |
| Gloucestershire | 216 |
| Greater Manchester | 2,469 |
| Hampshire | 848 |
| Hereford and Worcester | 435 |
| Hertfordshire | 1— |
| Humberside | 268 |
| Isle of Wight | 58 |
| Kent | 1— |
| Lancashire | 1— |
| Leicestershire | 1— |
| Lincolnshire | 217 |
| London | 6,320 |
| Mersey side | 744 |
| Norfolk | 1— |
| North Yorkshire | 1— |
| Northamptonshire | 219 |
| Northumberland | 130 |
| Number | |
| Nottinghamshire | 1— |
| Oxfordshire | 1— |
| Shopshire | 231 |
| Somerset | 292 |
| South Yorkshire | 591 |
| Staffordshire | 1— |
| Suffolk | 290 |
| Surrey | 394 |
| Tyne and Wear | 855 |
| Warwickshire | 131 |
| West Midlands | 1— |
| West Sussex | 346 |
| West Yorkshire | 1,568 |
| Wiltshire | 373 |
| 1 Not available—returns have not been received from all authorities in the county. Details of acceptances in individual authorities are available in a supplementary table which is released alongside the quarterly information bulletin on homelessness statistics. | |