FOI request (FOIR-737544199)

Accommodation outside the local authority

Requested Wed 10 September 2025
Responded Wed 10 September 2025

For the following calendar years (separately): 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, as well as the half-year 1st January – 39th June 2025.

1. The number of a) households and b) individuals your authority has secured accommodation for outside of the local authority under refugee resettlement schemes, broken down by local authority area they were placed into. Please only include those who accepted the accommodation placement.

2. The number of a) households and b) individuals your authority has secured accommodation for outside of the local authority under duties to prevent/relieve homelessness, broken down by local authority area they were placed into. Please only include those who accepted the accommodation placement. Please exclude any people already included in question 1.

3. Of those listed in Q2, the number of a) households and b) individuals who were refugees, broken down by local authority they were placed into.

---

Response

Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding.

The information provided below excludes temporary accommodation.

1. The Ukraine refugee resettlement scheme is managed by East Sussex County Council (https://www.eastsussex.gov.uk). Of those households that presented to us as homeless, 2x households wanted accommodation secured outside the area: 1x Eastbourne (2024), 1x Windsor and Maidenhead (2023).

Hastings Borough Council does not secure accommodation outside the local authority area under the refugee resettlement schemes.

2. This is not applicable to the refugee resettlement scheme.

3. See Q1 above.