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	date	09/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Homelessness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to paragraph 1.6 on page 14 of the National Audit Office's report of Session 2017-18, Homelessness, published on 13 September 2017, what steps his Department is taking to tackle concerns raised in that report that his Department’s measures of homelessness do not capture its full extent; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	275096
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2019 answer text <p>Measuring “hidden homelessness” is a complex issue. It will always be difficult by its nature – people are often not in contact with services, and it is challenging to establish everything that is going on in people’s lives. <br> <br> The Department does collect information on overcrowding and on concealed households (usually defined as single adults or groups of adults, with or without children, who occupy the accommodation with, but do not belong to, the household reference person’s family unit) through the English Housing Survey. Additional information is being collected through this survey to identify people who have experienced homelessness. <br> <br> The Homelessness Reduction Act brings more people such as single homeless households into scope to receive assistance from their local authority. These households were not assisted or reported through the old P1E collection, until the end of March 2018. Details on these non-priority need, single households often living with friends and family have been captured through the Department’s new case level data collection system, Homelessness Case Level Information Collection (H-CLIC), since April 2018. This data can be found online here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness</a><br> <br> The new data collection system, H-CLIC, captures information on households approaching for and receiving homelessness assistance, household demographics and the circumstances surrounding their homelessness. This includes any support needs of the homeless household. In time it will enable MHCLG to monitor repeat homelessness where people come back to services. It will help identify more detail on the circumstances of households vulnerable to homelessness and the interventions that are successful in preventing homelessness in the first place.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 15/07/2019 15:52:35 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1143886

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2019
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Kashmir: Telecommunications
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effect on residents of the Indian Government’s communications lockdown in Kashmir.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	285008
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2019 answer text <p>We are following the serious situation in Kashmir closely and are concerned about the restrictions on communications. Respect for individual rights and constructive dialogue with affected communities is important. We have raised these concerns with the Indian Government. On 7 August the Foreign Secretary discussed this issue with his Indian counterpart Dr Jaishankar. The Prime Minister has also discussed the situation in Kashmir with both PM Modi of India and PM Imran Khan of Pakistan.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 05/09/2019 13:57:36 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms