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<p>National street counts and intelligence driven estimates of people sleeping rough
are conducted every year in autumn. The most recent data from the autumn 2017 annual
street count and estimate returned a total figure of 4,751 rough sleepers in England.</p><p>Rough
sleepers are defined as people sleeping, about to bed down, or actually bedded down
in the open air (such as on the streets, in tents or in bus shelters) - as well as
people in buildings or other places not designed for habitation. As such, homeless
people sleeping in tents or cars are captured in the total. However, whilst they are
incorporated in our data, there is not a separate breakdown for these demographics.</p><p>The
official street count and estimate of the number of people sleeping rough on a single
night in England, between 1 October 2018 and 30 November 2018, will be published on
Thursday 31 January 2019.</p><p>This Government is committed to reducing homelessness
and rough sleeping. No one should ever have to sleep rough. That is why last summer
we published the cross-government Rough Sleeping Strategy which sets out an ambitious
£100 million package to help people who sleep rough now, but also puts in place the
structures that will end rough sleeping once and for all. The Government has now committed
over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review
period.</p>
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