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

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Dear Horsham 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,

Sam Holmes

FOI, Horsham District Council

Freedom of Information Act 2000

Request for Information

Thank you for your request.

Your request is being dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act and will be answered within twenty working days. If you
have any queries about this request please contact me.

Yours sincerely

Information Governance Officer

 
Email:  [1][Horsham District Council request email] [4]HDC
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Woods, Hannah, Horsham District Council

Dear Mr Holmes

 

Freedom of Information Act 2000 Response

 

Further to our acknowledgement we can now respond to your request for
information dated 23rd January 2018 asking about Evictions and Out-of-Area
rehousing of Council tenants affected by Welfare Reform. 

 

As you know we have dealt with your request in accordance with ‘your right
to know’ under section 1(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA),
which entitles you to be provided with a copy of any information ‘held’ by
a public authority, unless an appropriate exemption applies.

 

In your email of 23rd January 2018 you asked the following questions:

 

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. 

 

Horsham District Council is a non-stock owning local authority. Therefore,
we are unable to answer your FOI request.

 

If you wish to re-use the information supplied for any purpose other than
personal or non-commercial use you will need to make a written application
to the relevant department of the Council or author of the material
concerned.

 

If you are dissatisfied with this response and wish to request a review of
our decision or make a complaint about how your request has been handled
you should write to The Reviewing Officer, Legal & Democratic Services,
Parkside, Chart Way, Horsham, West Sussex RH12 1RL or by email
to[Horsham District Council request email]

 

Your request for internal review should be submitted to us within 40
working days of receipt by you of this response. Any such request received
after this time will be considered at the discretion of the Legal Services
team.

 

If having exhausted the review process you are not content that your
request or review has been dealt with correctly, you have the right to
appeal to the Information Commissioner at Wycliffe House, Water Lane,
Wilmslow, SK9 5AF. Further details of this process are available on the
ICO website atwww.ico.org.uk

 

 

There is no charge for making an appeal.

 

 

 

 

Hannah Woods
Housing Allocations Manager

Telephone:   01403 215446   |   
Email:  [1][email address] [4]HDC
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Horsham District Council, Parkside, Chart Way, Horsham, West Sussex RH12
1RL
Telephone: 01403 215100 (calls may be recorded)   [5]horsham.gov.uk  
Chief Executive - Tom Crowley

 

 

 

 

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