To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many households were living in temporary accommodation in Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency at the latest date for which figures are available. (282903)

Information about English local housing authorities’ actions under the homelessness legislation (Part 7 of the Housing Act 1996) is collected at local authority level, and published by the Department in the quarterly Statistical Release on Statutory Homelessness (available both in the Library and via the CLG website):

www.communities.gov.uk/publications/corporate/statistics/homelessnessql2009

The quarterly release includes a supplementary table showing key information at local authority level. The latest temporary accommodation figures reported by all local authorities (including Middlesbrough), as at 31 March 2009, can be found in column X of this table:

www.communities.gov.uk/documents/statistics/xls/1251701.xls