Temporary accommodation data for past ten years
Received 23 April 2026
1. Use of temporary accommodation
For each of the following calendar years – 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 – please provide:
The total number of temporary accommodation placements or bookings made
Of these, the total number of placements or bookings made with private providers
The total amount paid by the council to private providers of temporary accommodation
2. Costs
For the calendar year 2025, please provide:
a) The average monthly cost of temporary accommodation per person, and please provide this separately for:
• Accommodation provided by private sector providers
• Accommodation owned or managed by the council
b) The average monthly amount charged to residents for utilities and/or service charges in private sector temporary accommodation, where these costs are charged in addition to the
accommodation cost covered by the local authority.
Responded 22 May 2026
The information that you have requested is not held in an accessible reporting format by the Council.
The Housing department would need to manually extract the requested information by going through weekly hostel updates for each of the 10 years of data requested. If we estimate a five minute check for each hostel update, for each week, for each year, this would take over 43 hours.
The Regulations provide that the appropriate limit to be applied to requests received by local authorities is £450 (equivalent to 2.5 days of work). In estimating the cost of complying with a request for information, an authority can only take into account any reasonable costs incurred in:
“(a) determining whether it holds the information,
(b) locating the information, or a document which may contain the information,
(c) retrieving the information, or a document which may contain the information, and
(d) extracting the information from a document containing it”.
For the purposes of the estimate the costs of performing these activities should be estimated at a rate of £25 per hour.
This information is exempt from disclosure under Section 12(4)(b) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. In respect of those requests that are answered in full, partially or the total refused, please take this as notice under FOIA, that we:
a) Consider the information as exempt from disclosure under the Act.
b) Claim exempt under sections of the Act:
Section 12(4)(b) Manifestly Unreasonable
c) State why the exemption applies: