To ask Her Majesty’s Government what progress has been made in implementing the recommendations made by the UK Statistics Authority following the 2015 review of the statistics in relation to homelessness and rough sleeping.

Since the UK Statistics Authority report on homelessness statistics was published DCLG have engaged in detailed discussions with UK Statistics Authority officials. We have met the requirements set out below, and will continue to work with the UK Statistics Authority to make our homelessness statistics as robust and accessible as possible.

We have implemented the key requirement to combine the publication of statistics on statutory homelessness and prevention and relief. We have also enhanced our user engagement structures, and based on user discussions have embarked on a project to redesign the form which collects homelessness data. We have also added harmonised region codes to local authority datasets to allow users to easily re-use the data for regional analysis and have published demographic and time series data on rough sleepers for the first time.