FOI Request - Homeless Deaths 2025

Request 101003931859

1. The number of deaths from 1st January 2025 – 31st December 2025 (inclusive) in your local authority area, in each of the following housing situations:

a) 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
b) exempt accommodation
c) interim, emergency or temporary accommodation (commissioned or directly delivered) (Please specify which if this is known).
d) supported accommodation for homeless young people (commissioned and directly delivered)
e) refuge accommodation for survivors of domestic abuse
f) rough sleeping or with no fixed abode

2. 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
a) cause or suspected cause of death
b) date of death
c) the person’s gender
d) age when they died
e) ethnicity
f) immigration status

Response 03-03-2026

1. & 2. Not held. We have no way of determining the types of accommodation from the addresses in FER, the system used by the Registrars and there were no homeless deaths in Moray during the time frame. Information that is not held falls under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information not held.