Select committee: Women and Equalities Committee
Conclusion 21
1st Report - Black people’s experiences of homelessness
Published 15 Jul 2026
Addressed to Government Equalities Office
Women and Equalities Committee Black homelessness All items in this report Report on parliament.uk ↗ Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗
Conclusion (the committee's words)
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government should create a standardised framework for data collection. This should require local authorities to collect and publish data on social housing applications, outcomes, use and duration of temporary accommodation, and exits from statutory homelessness that can be disaggregated at a minimum by ethnicity, gender, age and disability at a national and local level. Local authorities must be held accountable if they fail to comply with this requirement. (Recommendation, Paragraph 104) 51 The government’s National Plan to End Homelessness
From: Women and Equalities Committee, 1st Report - Black people’s experiences of homelessness (HC 517), 15 July 2026
Government response
No government response linked yet: deadline 15 September 2026, 47 days ago.