Dear Ms Anscomb

Thank you for your Information Request received on 23 January 2018.

REQUEST:

I am seeking information about the potential impact of central government
welfare reform policies on eviction rates and geographical displacement of
households with council housing tenancies. My information request relates
to three welfare reform policies:

- Under-Occupancy (also known as Removal of Spare Room Subsidy / Bedroom
Tax)

- The Benefit Cap

- Universal Credit roll-out

1. Please provide an annual breakdown since April 2010 of the total number
of unique council tenancies - including the total number of people
recorded as living in them - that have been evicted due to the non-payment
of rent arrears.

2. For each year of this annual breakdown since April 2013, please
disclose how many of these evicted households - including the total number
of people recorded as living in them - had at some point been affected by:

a. Under-occupancy

b. Under-occupancy and the Benefit Cap

c. Under-occupancy and the Benefit Cap and Universal Credit roll-out

3. How many of the evicted households affected by a, b, or c - including
the total number of people recorded as living in them - went on to make a
successful homelessness application to the local authority?

4. Of these successful homeless applications, please disclose how many
households - including the total number of people recorded as living in
them - were placed in temporary accommodation in a different local
authority area and disclose the destination local authority area in each
case. 

RESPONSE:

  2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17
1a - No of 6 4 3 3 5 4 4
Council
Tenancies
resulting in
evictions due
to Rent
Arrears
1b - No of 6 4 3 3 7 4 4
persons
making up the
Household
2a - No of 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
people in
Household
affected at
some point 
by Under
Occupancy
Charge
2b - No of 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
people in
Household
affected at
some point by
Under
Occupancy

Charge &
Benefit Cap
2c - No of 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
people in
Housiehold
affected at
some point by
Under
Occupancy
Charge,
Benefit Cap &
or Universal
Credit
Rollout
3 -No of 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Persons in 5
above
successful in
making a 
Homelessness
Application
(with LA)
4 - Of those 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
successful
applications
the  No of
Persons
placed in
Temporary
Accommodation
with a
different
authority

If you are dissatisfied with the way your request for information has been
handled, you can write asking for a review of the Council’s response,
within the next two months, to the Information Management Team at: Arun
District Council, Arun Civic Centre, Maltravers Road, Littlehampton, West
Sussex, BN17 5LF (email [1][Arun District Council request email]).

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Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF (telephone: 0303
123 1113; website [2]www.ico.org.uk).  There is no charge for making an
appeal.

Yours sincerely,

Information Management Team

Arun District Council

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