Housing: Children

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)

[pursuant to the reply, 18 May 2007, Official Report, c. 978-79W]: Information on children in temporary accommodation is only available from 2004. Figures for local authorities in London are provided in table 1.

*Table 1: number of children in temporary accomodation*¹ *on 31 December 2004-06: by London local authority*
Local authority	2004	2005	2006
Barking and Dagenham	589	614	958
Barnet	²—	²—	²—
Bexley	632	598	612
Brent	7087	6,742	5,933
Bromley	²—	²—	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—	²—	²—
Harrow	2,526	2,373	2,298
Havering	802	1,013	675
Hillingdon	3,394	2,552	2,482
Hounslow	²—	²—	²—
Islington	²—	²—	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—	²—	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: PIE quarterly returns

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

Volume 461: debated on Wednesday 6 June 2007