Evictions and Out-of-Area Rehousing of Council Tenants affected by Welfare Reform

Suffolk Coastal District Council did not have the information requested.

Dear Suffolk Coastal District Council,

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

I understand that under Section 16 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 there is a duty to assist and advise the requester. I would appreciate your advice if you think my request needs any clarification in order to get the information that I am looking for, or if it would exceed the cost limit in its present form.

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.

Yours faithfully,

Alexandra Silverlock

FOI, Suffolk Coastal District Council

This is an automated response confirming receipt of your email by Suffolk
Coastal and Waveney District Council’s FOI mailbox.

Thank you contacting us. Your email will be read by a member of our team
as soon as possible. We endeavour to make an initial response to all
contacts within 5 working days.

If you have made a valid request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act  (FOI) or Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) ,
you will receive an automated acknowledgement from a “noreply” email
address when your request is logged.

If your enquiry is about anything else, including internal reviews and
Data Protection Act (DPA) requests, we will reply in person.

Any enquiry that falls outside the remit of FOI, EIR or DPA will be
forwarded to the relevant department and we will let you know.

More information about how we deal with FOI, EIR and DPA requests can be
found on our [1]Access to Information webpages.

If you would like to telephone about a request, please call Sara Barratt
on 01502 523389 (Monday to Thursday)

 

Regards,

Sara, Helen and Rachael

The Customer Experience Team

Customer Services

Suffolk Coastal and Waveney District Councils (in partnership)

Suffolk Coastal and Waveney District Councils are working as a partnership
and all emails received from us will use the @eastsuffolk.gov.uk email
address.

[2]www.eastsuffolk.gov.uk

[3]www.twitter.com/eastsuffolk | [4]www.facebook.com/eastsuffolkcouncils

 

 

Any requests made under the Freedom of Information Act or the
Environmental Information Regulations should be redirected to
[5][Suffolk Coastal District Council request email] clearly stating whether the request applies to
Suffolk Coastal District Council, Waveney District Council or both
authorities.

 

Confidentiality: This email and its attachments are intended for the above
named only and may be confidential. If they have come to you in error you
must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to
anyone; please reply to this email and highlight the error.

Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the
knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium.
We advise that you understand and accept this lack of security when
emailing us.

Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and
attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good
computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus
free.

 

This message has been scanned for malware by Websense. [6]www.websense.com

References

Visible links
1. http://www.eastsuffolk.gov.uk/yourcounci...
2. http://www.eastsuffolk.gov.uk/
3. http://www.twitter.com/eastsuffolk
4. http://www.facebook.com/eastsuffolkcounc...
5. mailto:[Suffolk Coastal District Council request email]
6. http://www.websense.com/

FOI, Suffolk Coastal District Council

Dear Ms Silverlock,

In response to your recently submitted FOI/EIR request, please find our
reply below:

Suffolk Coastal District Council does not have any Council housing stock.
The stock was transferred to Suffolk Heritage Housing Association (now
Flagship Housing) in 1991 and we no longer hold records for the period
prior to this.

Therefore the answers to your questions are:

1.       0

2.       n/a

3.       n/a

4.       n/a

Copyright and re-use of information

Information for which the Council holds the copyright may be used for
private purposes but must not be used for commercial purposes unless you
have advised us you wish to re-use it and you have our permission to do
so.

Published datasets may be reused under the [1]Open Government Licence for
public sector information.

In certain circumstances, the Council may be required to disclose
information for which it does not hold the copyright. In these
circumstances you must respect the rights of the copyright owner and seek
the copyright owner’s permission to re-use the information.

Please refer to the Eastsuffolk [2]FOI page for more information about
reuse of information.

This concludes your request.

If you require translation of the information you have been sent, please
contact us.

We proactively publish information and encourage you to check our website
before making a request.

The FOI webpage contains links to some of our most [3]frequently requested
information which is already published on the website.

For FOI requests made between June 2015 and 24 November 2017 we have
a [4]searchable disclosure log. For requests made from 25 November 2017
please contact us for a copy response.

If you have any queries or are dissatisfied with the information we have
provided in response to your request, please contact us at the email
address below. Please specify in your email whether your request concerns
Suffolk Coastal, Waveney or both authorities.

Details of our Internal Review process can be found on the
Eastsuffolk [5]FOI page.

More information about how we deal with requests under the Freedom of
Information Act, Environmental Information Regulations and Data Protection
Act can be found in the [6]Access to Information pages of our website.

Please quote the above reference number in any communication about this
request.

Regards,

Sara

Sara Barratt

Customer Experience Officer
Customer Services
Suffolk Coastal and Waveney District Councils
Tel: 01502 523389

[7]mailto:[Suffolk Coastal District Council request email]

Suffolk Coastal and Waveney District Councils are working as a partnership
and all emails received from us will use the @eastsuffolk.gov.uk email
address.

[8]www.eastsuffolk.gov.uk

[9]www.twitter.com/eastsuffolk | [10]www.facebook.com/eastsuffolkcouncils

 

 

show quoted sections