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<p>The Government collects quarterly and annual statistics on how many people approach
local authorities as homeless in England. Until April 2018, veterans formed part of
a wider vulnerable group category that included: care leavers, ex-offenders and those
who have fled home because of violence or the threat of violence (other than domestic
violence). As a result, individual statistics on homeless veterans before that date
are not published.</p><p>In April 2018 the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local
Government introduced a new case-level data collection called H-CLIC (Homelessness
Case Level Information Collection). This gives local authorities and Government more
information regarding homelessness and those presenting as homeless, including those
individuals who are veterans as a separate category. The Government does not differentiate
between regular and reserve personnel, nor does it record rank.</p><p>In England from
April to June 2018, of the 58,660 households to who, at the point of initial decision,
were owed a homelessness duty by the local authority, 0.7 per cent (430) of main applicants
had served in the armed forces.</p><p>The latest local authority level statistics,
and quarterly statistics since 2009, can be found here:</p><p><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></p><p>Data
from earlier years can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness#discontinued-tables"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness#discontinued-tables</a></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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