Dear Alessandra Berti

RE: 29852 - Housing, Rent Arrears and Housing Payments

I confirm receipt of your information request. We are dealing with this and will respond to you in due course.

The Freedom of Information Act 2000 and Environmental Information Regulations 2004 allow up to 20 working days for responding to information requests.

During the Coronavirus pandemic, our response to information rights requests may be longer. Please be assured that we will endeavour to reply to your request as soon as possible

If you are not content with the handling of your request you have the right to ask for an internal review. Requests for internal reviews should be addressed to the Monitoring Officer, 1st Floor, Civic Centre 3, Market Street, Huddersfield HD1 2EY. Alternatively, you can send an email to:- [email address].

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Regards

Information Governance Team
Kirklees Council
Governance Service
PO Box 1720
HUDDERSFIELD
HD1 9EL

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Dear Alessandra Berti,

Thank you for your recent enquiry.

From our preliminary assessment, it is clear that we will not be able to answer your request without further clarification.

The Council requires further information in order to identify and locate the information you have asked for. In particular, it would be useful to know:

ii.) For each of the above years, please provide a breakdown of expenditure on assisting the ongoing renting costs of council housing tenants, housing association tenants and private rental sector tenants.

What do you mean by assisting the ongoing renting costs?

Once you have clarified the information you require, I will action your request. If I do not receive clarification within a month, this question will be considered to have lapsed.

• Under section 1(3) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FoIA), a public authority need not comply with a request unless any further information reasonably required to locate the information is supplied.

• Under regulation 12(4)(c) of the Environmental Information Regulations 2014 (EIR), a public authority can refuse to answer a request that is too general, provided the public authority has gone back to the requester and asked for extra information, offering a advice and assistance to help to explain, clarify or rephrase their request.

In this case the Council considers that the EIR apply / FoIA applies.

Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.

If you would like to discuss this email, please contact me.

Regards

Information Governance Team
Kirklees Council
Governance Service
PO Box 1720
HUDDERSFIELD
HD1 9EL

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Dear Alessandra Berti

RE: 29852 - Housing, Rent Arrears and Housing Payments

I confirm receipt of your clarification email. We are dealing with this and will respond to you in due course.

The Freedom of Information Act 2000 and Environmental Information Regulations 2004 allow up to 20 working days for responding to information requests.

During the Coronavirus pandemic, our response to information rights requests may be longer. Please be assured that we will endeavour to reply to your request as soon as possible

If you are not content with the handling of your request you have the right to ask for an internal review. Requests for internal reviews should be addressed to the Monitoring Officer, 1st Floor, Civic Centre 3, Market Street, Huddersfield HD1 2EY. Alternatively, you can send an email to:- [email address].

Please remember to quote the above reference number in any future communications.

If you are not content with the outcome of any review you have the right under section 50 of the 2000 Act to apply to the Information Commissioner for a decision as to whether your request for information has been dealt with in accordance with the requirements of the Act. The Information Commissioner’s website is at www.ico.org.uk and gives more information about the role and duties of the Commissioner. The Information Commissioner’s offices will be closed for the foreseeable future and they are therefore unable to receive correspondence via post. The ICO can be contacted via their contact page, or by ringing 0303 123 1113.

Regards

Information Governance Team
Kirklees Council
Governance Service
PO Box 1720
HUDDERSFIELD
HD1 9EL

Telephone: 01484 221000 (voice activated switchboard – please ask for Freedom of Information)

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Dear Ms Berti

I am writing in response to your request dated 29 July 2022 .  This has
been dealt with under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

May I first of all apologise for the delay in responding to your request.

Your question and the Council’s responses are set out below

Q. 1. i.) Please state the local authority’s expenditure (including use of
Government grants) on clearing the arrears of tenants in the following
financial years.

Excellent Homes for Life (The breakdown below relates to properties
Pinnacle manage on behalf of Kirklees Council)

• 2017/2018 - £ 34,872.70 written off by the Local Authority

• 2018/2019 - £36,113.00 written off by the Local Authority

                       £4241.88 written off by a Debt Relief Order

• 2019/2020 - £5123.18 written off by the Local Authority

• 2020/2021   £28,723.61 written off by the Local Authority

• 2021/2022   £41,659.64 written off by the Local Authority

                     £4178.05 written off by a Debt Relief Order

Housing Solutions:

• 2017/2018 - NIL

• 2018/2019 £100 (council tenants). Total for year - £100

• 2019/2020 £529 (council tenants), £3336 (private rented tenants).
Total for year - £3856

• 2020/2021 £713 (council tenants), £94 (housing association tenants).
Total for year - £807

• 2021/2022 £26,953 (council tenants), £5,294 (private rented tenants),
£157 (housing association tenants). Total for year - £32,404

NB – please note that we do not hold information on whether these payments
either fully or partly cleared the arrears relating to each tenant.

ii.) For each of the above years, please provide a breakdown of
expenditure on clearing the arrears of council housing tenants, housing
association tenants and private rental sector tenants. 

2018/19 - £4241.88 – 1 Council Tenant managed by Pinnacle Group

2021/22 £4178.05 – 1 Council Tenant managed by Pinnacle Group

Q. 2.   i.) Please state the local authority’s expenditure (including use
of Government grants) on discretionary housing payments to assist ongoing
renting costs of tenants in the following years.

Excellent Homes for Life (The breakdown below relates to properties
Pinnacle manage on behalf of Kirklees Council)

• 2017/2018 - £0

• 2018/2019 – £2624.70 discretionary housing payments

• 2019/2020 - £1116.70 discretionary housing payments

• 2020/2021 - £5722.06 discretionary housing payments

• 2021/2022- £1816.51 discretionary housing payments

Further information on Discretionary Housing Payments can be found at the
following link  [1]Discretionary Housing Payments statistics - GOV.UK
(www.gov.uk)

ii.) For each of the above years, please provide a breakdown of
expenditure on assisting the ongoing renting costs of council housing
tenants, housing association tenants and private rental sector tenants.

• 2018/2019 – £2624.70 discretionary housing payments – All Council
Tenants managed by Pinnacle Group

• 2019/2020 - £1116.70 discretionary housing payments - All Council
Tenants managed by Pinnacle Group

• 2020/2021 - £5722.06 discretionary housing payments - All Council
Tenants managed by Pinnacle Group

• 2021/2022- £1816.51 discretionary housing payments - All Council
Tenants managed by Pinnacle Group

If you are not content with the handling of your request, you have the
right to ask for an internal review.  Requests for internal reviews should
be submitted within 2 months of the date of receipt of the response to
your original request and should be addressed to the Monitoring Officer,
1^st Floor, Civic Centre 3, Market Street, Huddersfield HD1 2EY. 
Alternatively, you can send an email to:
[2][email address]. 

Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future
communications.

If you are not content with the outcome of any review you have the right
under section 50 of the 2000 Act to apply to the Information Commissioner
for a decision as to whether your request for information has been dealt
with in accordance with the requirements of the Act.  The Information
Commissioner’s website is at [3]www.ico.org.uk and gives more information
about the role and duties of the Commissioner.  The ICO telephone helpline
on 0303 123 1113 or 01625 545745 is available between 9am and 5pm, Monday
to Friday.

Yours sincerely

John Shannon

Information Governance Team

Kirklees Council, Governance Service

Telephone: 01484 221000 (voice activated switchboard – please ask for
Freedom of Information)

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