{"value":{"id":1504656,"askingMemberId":478,"askingMember":null,"house":"Lords","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2022-09-05T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2022-09-20T00:00:00","uin":"HL2102","questionText":"To ask Her Majesty's Government how many homeless people have died on the street in each of the last five years.","answeringBodyId":211,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4582,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2022-09-20T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The Office for National Statistics began to produce estimates of deaths of homeless people in England and Wales in 2017 and the most recent publication covered deaths in 2020. There were an estimated 688 deaths of homeless people registered in England and Wales in 2020, 778 estimated deaths in 2019, 726 deaths in 2018 and 597 in 2017.</p><p>These statistics are published online at: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsofhomelesspeopleinenglandandwales/previousReleases</p><p>These statistics do not indicate whether deaths occurred on the street or within accommodation. The definition of homelessness used in these statistics follows from what is available in death registrations data to identify affected individuals, which mainly includes people sleeping rough or using emergency accommodation such as homeless shelters and direct access hostels, at or around the time of death.</p><p>The Government is committed to ending rough sleeping and has published a strategy backed by £2 billion setting out how we will achieve that.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Homelessness: Death","attachments":[{"url":"https://qna.files.parliament.uk/qna-attachments/1504656/original/PQ HL2102 Deaths of homeless people in England and Wales local authority estimates 2013 to 2017.docx","title":"Deaths of homeless people England and Wales 2017 ","fileType":"docx","fileSizeBytes":50635},{"url":"https://qna.files.parliament.uk/qna-attachments/1504656/original/PQ HL2102 Deaths of homeless people in England and Wales 2018.docx","title":"Deaths of homeless people England and Wales 2018","fileType":"docx","fileSizeBytes":41358},{"url":"https://qna.files.parliament.uk/qna-attachments/1504656/original/PQ HL2102 Deaths of homeless people in England and Wales 2019 registration.docx","title":"Deaths of homeless people England and Wales 2019","fileType":"docx","fileSizeBytes":42360}],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1504656","method":"GET"}]}