Humpherson wrote that the authority would have expected a DCLG press briefing from 13 December last year, which said “homelessness is less than half the 2003 peak”, to have noted that this referred only to statutory homelessness. In a letter of reply, Ed Humpherson, the authority’s director general for regulation, said the DCLG’s actions were disappointing, particularly as the department had been warned previously over its use of homelessness figures. The discrepancy with the DCLG statements was referred to the UK Statistics Authority by the Lib Dem peer Baroness Grender. Since 2009-10, homelessness under both definitions has risen significantly, charities note. This means that while the numbers meeting the statutory definition went down sharply between 20, there was little evidence that homelessness under the broader meaning had become less of a problem.
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