Information about English local housing authorities’ actions under the homelessness legislation (part 7 of the Housing Act 1996) is collected quarterly at local authority level.
Data collected include the number of decisions on applications from households eligible for assistance, who were found by local authorities to be in a priority need category but had become homeless intentionally. Information is not held centrally on the overall number of intentionally homeless households.
The number of households found to be intentionally homeless and in priority need, in each of the past 10 years, is published in table 1 of the Statistical Release on Statutory Homelessness, available on the web and in the Library at:
http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/statistics/xls/1251698.xls