FOI request (FOIR-269079724)

Discretionary Housing payment spend: 2020/21

Requested Thu 05 November 2020
Responded Fri 20 November 2020

1. The total Discretionary Housing Payment allocation for your authority for 2020/21

2. The equivalent figure for 2019/20

3. As at October 31 2020, the amount of this budget that has already been spent

4. For comparison, the amount of the 2019/20 budget which had been by October 31 2019

5. The number of applications for DHP received so far in 2020/21

6. The number of applications for DHP rejected so far in 2020/21

7. For comparison, equivalent numbers to (4) and (5) for the period April to October 2019

Please note: if you are not an authority which retains its housing stock, this is still a question which is pertinent. All authorities are given a DHP budget.

Response

1. £478,267.00

2. £328,868.00

3. £138,963.29

4. £152,173.04

5. 471

6. 47

7. DHP Applications received April to 31 October 2019 - 1123 and Number of DHP Applications refused April to 31 October 2019 - 115