Hon. Steve Martin asks the Minister for Health about the number of deaths of homeless people in WA between 2017 and 2021. The Minister responds that WA Health does not have this data.

AnsweredQoN 391Legislative Council
Asked
3 August 2021
Portfolio
Health

QuestionView source ↗

HOMELESSNESS — DEATHS
391. Hon STEVE MARTIN to the minister representing the
Minister for Health:
I refer to the recent release of
data collected by the University of Western Australia's Home2Health
team, which showed that at least 56 homeless people died in Perth last year.
How many Western Australians experiencing homelessness have died in the
following years —
(a) 2017–18;
(b) 2018-19;
(c) 2019–20; and
(d) 2020–21?

AnswerView source ↗

On behalf of the representative
minister, I provide the following answer.
I
thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. However, this data
is not available from WA Health.

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