{"value":{"id":1745548,"askingMemberId":4667,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2024-11-28T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2024-12-02T00:00:00","uin":"16807","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent estimate her Department has made of the number of children living in temporary accommodation.","answeringBodyId":7,"answeringBodyName":"Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4138,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2024-12-06T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>Local authorities in England report the numbers of households in temporary accommodation and this data is published each quarter as part of the Homelessness Case Level Information Collection (H-CLIC). The most recent figures for April - June 2024 showed that on 30 June 2024, 78,420 households with children were in temporary accommodation, which includes 159,380 children. The figures for April – June 2024, including regional breakdowns, are available here (see tab TA1): <a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statutory-homelessness-in-england-april-to-june-2024\" target=\"_blank\">Statutory homelessness in England: April to June 2024 - GOV.UK</a>.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Temporary Accommodation: Children","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1745548","method":"GET"}]}