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Housing: Children

Volume 460: debated on Friday 18 May 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many children were registered as living in (a) temporary accommodation, (b) non-decent accommodation and (c) overcrowded accommodation in each London borough in each year since 1997. (130743)

Information on children in temporary accommodation is only available from 2004. Figures for local authorities in London are provided in the following table.

Number of children in temporary accommodation1 on 31 December 2004-06: by London local authority

Local authority

2004

2005

2006

Barking and Dagenham

589

614

958

Barnet

2

3,003

2

Bexley

632

598

612

Brent

7,087

6,742

5,933

Bromley

2

1,087

1,271

Camden

2,438

2,703

2,319

City of London

54

0

28

Croydon

5,006

4,325

3,547

Ealing

2

3,640

3,362

Enfield

6,649

6,890

2

Greenwich

523

842

963

Hackney

3,165

3,155

2,900

Hammersmith and Fulham

2,649

2,767

2,786

Haringey

2

6,442

2

Harrow

2,526

2,373

2,298

Havering

802

1,013

675

Hillingdon

3,394

2,552

2,482

Hounslow

2

1,500

2

Islington

2

1,735

2

Kensington and Chelsea

2

2

346

Kingston upon Thames

2

2

2

Lambeth

2,068

2,450

2,970

Lewisham

1,931

2,445

2,740

Merton

195

108

87

Newham

2

2

2

Redbridge

2

3,554

2

Richmond upon Thames

545

582

496

Southwark

680

1,016

1,352

Sutton

699

765

656

Tower Hamlets

4,918

4,469

3,963

Waltham Forest

2,189

3,924

4,290

Wandsworth

2,012

1,863

1,587

Westminster

2

2

2

1 Households in temporary accommodation (excluding applicants recorded as homeless at home) on the last day of the quarter, as arranged by a local housing authority as a discharge of their statutory homelessness functions.

2 Local authority did not report.

Source:

P1E quarterly returns

Estimates of the number of children living in non-decent homes or in overcrowded households in each London borough is not available.