FOI release

Costs of temporary accommodation for homeless households in 2022/23 and 2023/24

Case reference FOI2024/01262

Received 25 July 2024

Published 16 August 2024

Request

Please advise:

1. Your total spending on temporary accommodation for homeless households in the financial year 2022/23.

Please advise how much of this spending was funded by central Government (for instance via the Homelessness Prevention Grant) and what, if any, was the net cost to you (to be funded by the Council Tax.)

2. Your total spending on temporary accommodation for homeless households in the financial year 2023/24.

Please advise how much of this spending was funded by central Government (for instance via the Homelessness Prevention Grant) and what, if any, was the net cost to you (to be funded by the Council Tax.)

3. Your total spending on hotels as temporary accommodation for homeless households in the financial year 2022/23.

4. Your total spending on hotels as temporary accommodation for homeless households in the financial year 2023/24.

Response

Please advise:

1. Your total spending on temporary accommodation for homeless households in the financial year 2022/23.

A) £1,638,000

Please advise how much of this spending was funded by central Government (for instance via the Homelessness Prevention Grant) and what, if any, was the net cost to you (to be funded by the Council Tax.)

A) £410,000

2. Your total spending on temporary accommodation for homeless households in the financial year 2023/24.

A) £2,330,000

Please advise how much of this spending was funded by central Government (for instance via the Homelessness Prevention Grant) and what, if any, was the net cost to you (to be funded by the Council Tax.)

A) £50,000

3. Your total spending on hotels as temporary accommodation for homeless households in the financial year 2022/23.

A) £848,000

4. Your total spending on hotels as temporary accommodation for homeless households in the financial year 2023/24.

A) £1,358,000

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