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FOI request (FOIR-381778951)
Temporary accommodation
Requested Mon 29 November 2021
Responded Fri 07 January 2022I am requesting the following information under the Freedom of Information Act:
1. The total number of households in temporary accommodation (whether placed in council or non-council housing, whether inside or outside the local authority area) as of March (or April) 2020
Questions 1 and 2 are aimed at those councils whose TA figures were not published in the corresponding quarterly statistics published by what was MHCLG - most councils can simply refer me to those MHCLG publications.
2. The total number of households in temporary accommodation (whether placed in council or non-council housing, whether inside or outside the local authority area) as of March (or April) 2021
3. The total number of households currently in temporary accommodation (whether placed in council or non-council housing, whether inside or outside the local authority area)
4. The number of households that were newly placed in temporary accommodation each month since January 2021 (i.e. their tenancy/placement began that month). Preferably this figure should exclude households transferred between different temporary accommodation placements
5. How many households in temporary accommodation currently pay their rent either to the council or via the council?
6. Of the households in question 5, how many are currently in arrears on their rent by at least four weeks/one month (or any similar timeframe used by the council in its records, e.g. six weeks)?
7. Please state how many applications for homelessness support since 1st April 2021 have been rejected due to the applicant being ineligible for public funds under No Recourse to Public Funds rules – this is an overall figure, not a monthly one. If a figure for NRPF is unavailable, please provide a figure for applications rejected due to the applicant being ineligible under s185 of the Housing Act 1996
8. Were the applicants referred to in question 7 given accommodation regardless of their housing legislation eligibility (e.g. via Everyone In or a successor scheme)? Please provide any information held on how many of the applicants covered in question 7 were given accommodation in this way.
Response
Q1. Please see https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness
Q2. Please see https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness
Q3. As at 01/12/2021 currently there are 367 households in Temporary Accommodation.
Q4. New placements:
January 2021 = 34
February 2021 = 41
Mar 2021 = 35
April 2021 = 38
May 2021 = 26
June 2021 = 44
July 2021 = 40
August 2021 = 30
September 2021 = 40
October 2021 = 40
November 2021 = 46
Q5. & Q6. Due to staff sickness, we currently don't have the resources to manually update our payment records, in order to identify which households are in arrears. However, I can confirm that when households are placed in temporary accommodation, Housing Benefit forms are completed. If customer is entitled to any Housing Benefit, its paid directly to us, but will be paid 4 weeks in arrears. Most households placed in temporary accommodation will be entitled to Housing Benefit. For those customers who aren't entitled to Housing Benefit (approx 30 households), they must pay for the cost of temporary accommodation themselves. As mentioned above, our payment records aren't up to date so therefore unable to state how many households are in arrears. Most of our temporary accommodation is owned and managed by private companies who invoice us on a regular basis. We pay them on receipt of that invoice.
Q7. NRPF = 7
Q8. 2 people with NRPF accommodated at / since 01/04/2021 under Everyone In / Severe Weather Emergency Protocol (SWEP).
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