Response 4042512

Response to request for information

Reference

4042512

Response date

2 July 2026

Request

In the Council’s capacity as a Housing Benefit administrator, can you provide the twenty highest weekly Housing Benefit awards in payment in respect of exempt accommodation for specialist supported housing (supported living in Rushcliffe). Please include the following additional information: 

• Confirmation of the split between lease or core rent and service charges
• Confirmation whether the payments relate to self-contained or shared accommodation
• Confirmation whether the payments relate to an apartment, bungalow or house

Response

Please note that the Council considers the information requested above to fall under the exemption in section 43(2) of the FOIA.  The information requested is held by the Council.  However, the Council is of the view the information is commercially sensitive and having considered whether it would be in the public interest to provide you with the information has concluded that disclosing the information requested would prejudice the Council’s commercial interests and distort genuine competition resulting in the inflation of rent. I am satisfied that in all the circumstances of this case the public interest in withholding the information outweighs the public interest in disclosing it in accordance with section 43(2) of the FOIA.