PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Homelessness: Death (13 June 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many homeless people have died in each year since 2010; and what steps his Department is taking to ensure the accuracy of the recording of the death of homeless people.

Asked by:
Matt Western (Labour)

This Department does not collect data on deaths of people sleeping rough.

We are however currently exploring potential mechanisms for capturing this information alongside other Government departments.

Local areas and homelessness services often hold detailed information about the people who sleep rough in their area, including information about rough sleepers who have died, where this information is available to them.

The Rough Sleeping Strategy to be published in July will set out this Government’s plans to halve rough sleeping by 2022, end it by 2027 and shape service provision in the long term.

Answered by:
Nigel Adams (Conservative)
18 June 2018