FOI request (FOIR-742118845)

Housing Register and Emergency/Temporary Accommodation

Requested Tue 19 August 2025
Responded Wed 03 September 2025

1. Number of applicants on the housing register for the year 2024-2025.

2. Expenditure/Budget for emergency/temporary accommodation for 2023, 2024, and 2025.

This includes numbers of applicant housing register for the years 2022/23 and 2023/24, which I believe are already published among the Local Authority Housing Statistics.

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Response

1. Applicants on Housing Register as at:

31st March 2022 = 1143

31st March 2023 = 1472

31st March 2024 = 1594

31st March 2025 = 1721

2. The gross amount spent on privately procured temporary accommodation (PPTA) by financial year is as follows:

2022/23 - £7,334,334

2023/24 - £9,781,487

2024/25 - £10,443,985