Question reference: S2W-01746
- Asked by: Margaret Mitchell, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 30 July 2003
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Current status: Answered by Margaret Curran on 10 September 2003
Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost of housing homeless people in (a) bed and breakfast accommodation, (b) local authority-owned property, (c) hostels and (d) other temporary accommodation has been in each year since 1997, broken down by local authority.
Answer
The information requested isnot held centrally. Costs will vary considerably within each type of tenureaccording to the assessed needs of each individual homeless person as well asbetween local authorities. While local authorities should now hold improvedhomelessness data as a result of recent work to develop local homelessnessstrategies, we have no plans at present to request an analysis of such costinformation from local authorities.