FOI request (FOIR-694982965)

HSF and local welfare support

Requested Tue 11 March 2025
Responded Tue 13 May 2025

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Response

Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding.

NOTICE OF REFUSAL

 

The information requested in respect number of single people and couples with or without children would require us to manually check each customer records, this would far exceed the time limit set out by the Information Commissioner therefore under 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.

Please see below information that is held.

HSF1 - October 2021 to March 2022 Total expenditure £284,972 Total number of applications: 1343 Total number of applications approved: 1151 Award Type Volumes: Food Vouchers: 896 Energy/Water: 255 Demographics Couples with children: Not known, not recorded Couples without children: Not known, not recorded Single with children: Not known, not recorded Single without children: Not known, not recorded Working age families with children: Not known, not recorded Working age families without Children: Not known, not recorded Pensioner families: Not known, not recorded

HSF2 – April 2022 to September 2022 Total expenditure £412,234 Total number of applications: 4371 Total number of applications approved: 3049 Award Type Volumes: Food Vouchers: 1616 Energy/Water: 1433 Demographics Couples with children: Not known, not recorded Couples without children: Not known, not recorded Single with children: Not known, not recorded Single without children: Not known, not recorded Working age families with children: 1502 Working age families without Children: 364 Pensioner families: 1183

HSF3 – October 2022 to March 2023 Total expenditure £315,459 Total number of applications: 971 Total number of applications approved: 817 Award Type Volumes: Energy, water, and food: 817 Demographics Couples with children: Not known, not recorded Couples without children: Not known, not recorded Single with children: Not known, not recorded Single without children: Not known, not recorded Working age families with children: 7 Working age families without children: 110 Pensioner families: 700

HSF4 – April 2023 to March 2024 Total expenditure £492,718 Total number of applications: 258 Total number of applications approved: 208 (and 743 pro-active awards to households with no requirement for application to be made) Award Type Volumes: Energy, water, and food: 948 Demographics Couples with children: Not known, not recorded Couples without children: Not known, not recorded Single with children: Not known, not recorded Single without children: Not known, not recorded Working age with children: 12 Working age without: 118 Pensioner families: 818

HSF5 – April 2024 to September 2024 Total expenditure: £186995 Total number of applications: 1407 Total number of applications approved: 1097 Award Type Volumes: Energy, water, and food: 1097 Demographics Couples with children: Not known, not recorded Couples without children: Not known, not recorded Single with children: Not known, not recorded Single without children: Not known, not recorded Working age with children: 753 Working age without: 276 Pensioner families: 68

HSF6 – October 2024 to March 2025 Total expenditure: £219,570 Total number of applications: 1453 Total number of applications approved: 966 Award Type Volumes: Energy, water, and food: 966 Demographics Couples with children: Not known, not recorded Couples without children: Not known, not recorded Single with children: Not known, not recorded Single without children: Not known, not recorded Working age with children: 639 Working age without: 285 Pensioner families: 42