FOI request (FOIR-439695871)

Housing

Requested Tue 26 July 2022
Responded  Thu 19 January 2023

Q1. i) Please state the local authority's expenditure (including use of Government grants) on clearing the arrears of tenants in the following financial years.

a. 2017/2018

b. 2018/2019

c. 2019/2020

d. 2020/2021

e. 2021/2022

Q1. ii) For each of the above years, please provide a breakdown of expenditure on clearing the arrears of council housing tenants, housing association tenants and private rental sector tenants.

Q2. i) Please state the local authority's expenditure (including use of Government grants) on discretionary housing payments to assist ongoing renting costs of tenants in the following years.

a. 2017/2018

b. 2018/2019

c. 2019/2020

d. 2020/2021

e. 2021/2022

Q2. ii) For each of the above years, please provide a breakdown of expenditure on assisting the ongoing renting costs of council housing tenants, housing association tenants and private rental sector tenants.

Response

Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding.  The department that held part of this information have been dealing with all government grants which has taken staff away from day to day duties.

Q1. i) a. 2017/2018 = £2,741.20

Q1. i) b. 2018/2019 = £0.00

Q1. i) c. 2019/2020 = £24,955.06

Q1. i) d. 2020/2021 = £8,429.00

Q1. i) e. 2021/2022 = £37,707.53

Q1. ii) a. 2017/2018 council housing tenants = £0.00, housing association tenants = £1,377.35, private rental sector tenants = £1363.85

Q1. ii) b. 2018/2019 = N/A

Q1. ii) c. 2019/2020 council housing tenants = £3,381.57, housing association tenants = £12,708.04, private rental sector tenants = £8,865.45

Q1. ii) d. 2020/2021 council housing tenants = £0.00, housing association tenants = £3,276.00, private rental sector tenants = £5,153.00

Q1. ii) e. 2021/2022 council housing tenants = £0.00, housing association tenants = £17,059.58, private rental sector tenants = £20,647.95

Q2. i) a. 2017/2018 = £412,154.00

Q2. i) b. 2018/2019 = £381,729.00

Q2. i) c. 2019/2020 = £328,868.00

Q2. i) d. 2020/2021 = £478,267.00

Q2. i) e. 2021/2022 = £311,674.00

Q2. ii) NOTICE OF REFUSAL

The information requested in respect of Q2 (ii) would require us to manually check more than 500 individual claims for each year. This would far exceed the time limit set out by the Information Commissioner. S12 of the Freedom of information Act 2000 provides an exemption from the obligation to comply with a request for information if the estimated costs of complying with that request would exceed the prescribed appropriate limit.

We estimate that the costs of complying with your request would exceed the appropriate limit by a significant amount.

For this reason we feel unable to comply with this part of your request.