Response 3721169

Response to request for information

Reference

3721169

Response date

25 April 2025

Request

1. The total number of homelessness applicants who approached the council to join the housing register, in 2022/23, 2023/24, and 2024/25.
2. The total number of homelessness approaches involving the applicant fleeing domestic abuse, in 2022/23, 2023/24, and 2024/25.
3. The number of homelessness applicants (for any reason) on the social housing register who were placed in each of your housing allocation bands (e.g. Band A, Band B, Band C, etc), in 2022/23, 2023/24, and 2024/25. Please also include the number who were not accepted onto the housing register.
4. The number of homelessness applicants on the social housing register, who are fleeing domestic abuse, who were placed in each of your housing allocation bands (e.g. Band A, Band B, Band C, etc), in 2022/23, 2023/24, and 2024/25. Please also include the number who were not accepted onto the housing register.

Response

I have to advise you that we will not be able to answer your request without exceeding the appropriate limit. This is because This is not information we report on and it is not held in an extractable format. This would require a bespoke report to be created by our system provider which would exceed the cost of compliance for an FOI.

Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act makes provision for public authorities to refuse requests for information where the cost of dealing with them would exceed the appropriate limit, which for local authorities is set at £450. This represents the estimated cost of one person spending 2 working days in determining whether the authority holds the information, and locating, retrieving and extracting it. The appropriate limit is prescribed by regulation 3 of the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004.