Response 3842418

Response to request for information

Reference

3842418

Response date

26 November 2025

Request

The request seeks to understand how your authority funds and manages housing and homelessness services and any public private partnerships. If any of the requested information is already publicly available, please provide a link or reference.

1. Please provide the following data relating to housing and homelessness:
   • The total number of households supported through homelessness services in most recent financial year
     • Year on year total and percentage change
   • Total expenditure on homelessness and associated services in most recent financial year
     • Year on year total and percentage change
     •  As a percentage of total budget, expenditure on homelessness and associated services in most recent financial year
   • Total number of nights spent in temporary accommodation in most recent financial year
     
     • Year on year total and percentage change
2. Furthermore, where recorded, please provide data on outcomes or success rates for the following types of intervention: 
   
   • Temporary accommodation 
   • Rapid rehousing 
   • Supported housing schemes
3. Please provide the details on the funding sources for these services (central government grants, local council tax, business rates, housing revenue account, rental income, capital receipts, private investment, charity/voluntary sector contributions, etc.), with approximate amounts or percentages.
4. Please set out, as a percentage, the proportion of homelessness related spending in the most recent financial year associated with homelessness prevention.
5. Please provide a list of active public private partnerships, joint ventures or similar arrangements through which the authority delivers housing or homelessness services. For each partnership please provide:
   
   1. Name of the private partner(s) (e.g. company or charity).
   2. Date of commencement and duration of the contract or agreement.  
   3. Purpose and scope (e.g., management of temporary accommodation, development of affordable homes, regeneration project).  
   4. Funding structure – the proportion of budget provided by the authority versus the private partner

Response

1. Please provide the following data relating to housing and homelessness:
   • The total number of households supported through homelessness services in most recent financial year
     • Year on year total and percentage change
       • 2023 – 2024: 779
       • 2024 – 2025: 798
       • 2.4% Increase
   • Total expenditure on homelessness and associated services in most recent financial year
     • Year on year total and percentage change
       • 2023 – 2024: £457,169
       • 2024 – 2025: £523, 403
       • 14.5% Increase
     • As a percentage of total budget, expenditure on homelessness and associated services in most recent financial year
       • 2023 – 2024: 1.0%
       • 2024 – 2025: 1.1%
   • Total number of nights spent in temporary accommodation in most recent financial year
     
     • Year on year total and percentage change
       • 2023 – 2024: 2552
       • 2024 – 2025: 2649
       • 3.8% Increase
2. Furthermore, where recorded, please provide data on outcomes or success rates for the following types of intervention: 
   
   • Temporary accommodation 
   • Rapid rehousing 
   • Supported housing schemes
     • Unable to report on these figures. The creation of a bespoke report by the software provider would exceed the financial limit for FOI request (Section 12). See H-CLIC data available at Tables on homelessness - GOV.UK
3. Please provide the details on the funding sources for these services (central government grants, local council tax, business rates, housing revenue account, rental income, capital receipts, private investment, charity/voluntary sector contributions, etc.), with approximate amounts or percentages.
   • 2023/24
     • Central Government Grant - £324,809.00
     • Rents (including Housing Benefits) - £153,847.74
     • Service Charges - £9,468.54
     • Total - £488,125.28
   • 2024/25
     • Central Government Grant - £327,934.00
     • Rents (including Housing Benefits) - £172,064.57
     • Service Charges - £9,207.29
     • Total - £509,205.86
4. Please set out, as a percentage, the proportion of homelessness related spending in the most recent financial year associated with homelessness prevention.
   • 35% of expenditure related to homelessness prevention.
5. Please provide a list of active public private partnerships, joint ventures or similar arrangements through which the authority delivers housing or homelessness services.
   • All homelessness services are delivered in-house, we do not have any joint ventures or similar arrangements. We are a stock transfer authority and do not have any Council led development projects. Instead, we rely on Section 106 development that require affordable housing to be delivered and transferred to an Affordable Housing Provider as part of the affordable housing obligations.