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FOI request (FOIR-861089438)
Spending on temporary accommodation
Requested Wed 29 July 2026
Responded Thu 27 August 2026Please provide the following under freedom of information laws:
- The total sum spent on temporary accommodation by the council for each of the financial years (1 April to 31 March): 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25, 2025-26
- The number of households in temporary accommodation on 31 March 2024, 2025 and 2026. Count any household that the council has placed and is funding, whether that is within the borough or not.
- How many of those households included children for each year
- For 2026, How many households including children were housed in B&Bs
- For 2026, How many households including children were housed in B&Bs for longer than six weeks
- For 2026, the three longest times that a household on that list had been in temporary accommodation
- The number of households on the council’s waiting list for long-term social housing as of 31 March 2026
- The three longest times that a household on that list had been waiting
Response
Q1. Cost of privately procured temporary accommodation.
2020/21 - £2,953,973
2021/22 - £4,356,882
2022/23 - £7,354,748
2023/24 - £9,533,486
2024/25 - £10,443,895
2025/26 - £10,449,708
Q2. Information on number of households in temporary accommodation at end of each financial year, please see gov.uk website https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness. For 2026, no households with children were placed in B&Bs.
Q3. Number of households on waiting list as of 31 March 2026 is 1611. Longest waits: 2 x 20 years, 1 x 19 years
- The total sum spent on temporary accommodation by the council for each of the financial years (1 April to 31 March): 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25, 2025-26
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