Response 38900065

Response to request for information

Reference

38900065

Response date

6 February 2026

Request

Please can I request information about the number of deaths from 1st January 2025 – 31st December 2025 (inclusive) in your local authority area, in each of the following housing situations:

• accommodation for homeless people, commissioned or directly delivered by your council, including nightshelter, hostels and supported housing services for people rough sleeping or with a history of rough sleeping
• exempt accommodation
• interim, emergency or temporary accommodation (commissioned or directly delivered) offered under Part VII Housing Act. (Please specify which if this is known).
• supported accommodation for homeless young people (commissioned and directly delivered)
• refuge accommodation for survivors of domestic abuse
• rough sleeping or with no fixed abode

We are seeking this information about adults and children of all ages who were experiencing homelessness at the time of their death. Please include the cause or suspected cause of death, date of death, the person’s gender, age when they died, ethnicity, and immigration status. If you cannot provide all of this information, then please just provide all that you can.

Response

Zero to all questions.