The government has also taken action to tackle rough sleeping.

To really make a difference, we need to tackle the causes of rough sleeping, all the year round.

The long period over which rough sleeping was in decline shows there is nothing inevitable about it.

Many of the residents have a history of rough sleeping.

The Government is spending about £100 million tackling the problem of rough sleeping in our cities.

But as the next election approaches is anyone surprised that rough sleeping in the capital has not gone away?

By 1997 the incoming Labour government wanted a different and more effective approach to dealing with rough sleeping.

Rough sleeping rose by 55 per cent under the Coalition government, according to official figures.

London's sheer size and drawing power may mean that rough sleeping will always be a part of it.

Rough sleeping is only those people actually sleeping on the streets.

It is reported that in London rough sleeping has risen by eight per cent.

He pledged to eradicate rough sleeping in the capital by the end of 2012.

The campaign starts as the latest figures for rough sleeping in England are due to be published.

It successfully brought together key players around a focused task of reducing rough sleeping.

In London, rough sleeping, the most visible form of homelessness, rose by 8% last year.

We can now step up a gear in our drive to end rough sleeping in the capital for good.

This programme helps to support local strategies addressing rough sleeping and single homelessness.

To co-ordinate activity, he set up in 2009 a delivery board to bring together work on rough sleeping across London.

It will contract with the voluntary or private sector to provide comprehensive services to reduce rough sleeping.

The increase in rough sleeping arose for a variety of reasons including:

Their presence threatens to undermine the government's aim to rid the country of rough sleeping.

Not only has he failed to hit the target but rough sleeping has increased every year that he's been mayor.

Subjects explored included, rough sleeping, teenage pregnancy, mental health, older people.

This comes on top of the £470 million funding the government has maintained since 2010 to tackle rough sleeping and homelessness.

Annual statistical release evaluating the extent of rough sleeping.