Response 3791545

Response to request for information

Reference

3791545

Response date

15 August 2025

Request

For each year from 2020 to 2025 for the quarter ending 31 March, could you please provide:

• The total number of households from your local authority sent to another council as an Out of Area Temporary Accommodation Placement                            
• The local authorities where these placements were sent
• The number of households sent to each local authority
• The number of households with children sent to each local authority

Response

Thank you for your freedom of information request received on 4 August. I have to advise you that we will not be able to answer your request without exceeding the appropriate limit. This is because we do not hold the information in an extractable format and to retrieve the information requested would involve creating a bespoke report by the software provider which would exceed the financial threshold

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.