FOI Request 25/07/2022 Housing
Dear Fenland District Council,
I am writing to request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
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.
a. 2017/2018
b. 2018/2019
c. 2019/2020
d. 2020/2021
e. 2021/2022
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.
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.
a. 2017/2018
b. 2018/2019
c. 2019/2020
d. 2020/2021
e. 2021/2022
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.
Yours faithfully,
Alessandra Berti
Good morning, thank you for your enquiry.
Fenland District Council does not own or manage properties as it sold its Council housing stock to Roddons Housing Association, who have now been absorbed into Clarion Housing Group. They can be contacted at www.circle.org.uk
Kind regards
FOI Officer
Fenland District Council
01354 654321
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Dear Fenland District Council
You mentioned that the information was not held given that Fenland District Council had sold its housing stock to Clarion Housing Group. However, my questions were pertaining to the expenditure of Fenland District Council towards council and non-council tenants in covering rental arrears (Q1) and ongoing rent costs (Q2). I would assume that regardless of who owns the housing stock the council should hold the information on how it has spent moneys from any government grants to clear off rent arrears (including but not limited to the homelessness prevention grant) and the amount of discretionary housing payments made to cover tenants’ ongoing renting costs.
Can you confirm that Fenland District Council does not hold any of this financial data?
Best,
Alessandra Berti
Dear Alessandra Berti
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Good afternoon
Thank you for your request for information which we received on 02/08/22.
Your request has been considered under the Freedom of Information Act
2000.
Please find the information 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.
a. 2017/2018 £3,168.86
b. 2018/2019 £19,276.52
c. 2019/2020 £3,338.78
d. 2020/2021 £427.64
e. 2021/2022 £24,400.23
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.
Council House
Tenants Housing Associations Private
£
£ £
2017/18
186.36 2,307.35
675.15
2018/19
600.00
11,669.36 7,007.16
2019/20
0.00
1,588.78 1,750.00
2020/21
0.00
0.00 427.64
2021/22
0.00
1,000.00 23,400.23
Q2
Discretionary Housing Payment expenditure for Fenland relating to the
years below:
a. 2017/2018 £155,439.35
b. 2018/2019 £176138.00
c. 2019/2020 £141120.62
d. 2020/2021 £189008.50
e. 2021/2022 £155860.83
ii) Unfortunately we cannot breakdown expenditure into tenancy types
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