Question follow-through · 73755
Temporary Accommodation: Families
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information her Department holds on the number of families that have been living in emergency accommodation for longer than the six-week legal limit.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 1 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 15 Sept 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information her Department holds on the number of families that have been living in emergency accommodation for longer than the six-week legal limit.
3 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Department publishes quarterly statistics on statutory homelessness in England, which can be found on gov.uk here. The latest quarterly data was published on 22 July 2025, covering January to March 2025. The number of under 18s in temporary accommodat...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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