Dear Ms O’Connell,

 

Thank you for your request below, dated 3 November 2023; we have treated this as a Freedom of Information request. You have asked for the following information; please see our responses below each query in blue::

  1. How much money the council has paid to hotels, hostels, bed and breakfasts and guest houses for use as temporary or emergency accommodation for homeless households in the last four full financial years. (Note: if you are unable to provide data for 2022/23, please take the previous four full financial years i.e. 2018/19 to 2021/22)

Note, that we are unable to provide the amount of money paid for bed and breakfast accommodation as the cost of these units was invoiced together with the cost of self- contained units, and it is practically not possible to separate the amount paid for these units.

  1. How many households the council has placed in hotels, hostels, bed and breakfasts, and guest houses in the last four full financial years. (Note: if you are unable to provide data for 2022/23, please take the previous four full financial years i.e. 2018/19 to 2021/22)
Year Number of households
2019/20 285
2020/21 199
2021/22 310
2022/23 543
Grand Total 1337
  1. How long each household spent in the hotel, hostel, bed and breakfast or guest house placed in by the council before being placed in a self-contained housing (e.g. a flat or house) or before the council discharged their housing duty.

As we have not received any response to our request for clarity on Q3, we have provided the average time, and the minimum and maximum across all households. Please let us know if you would like something different.

Average 83 days
Max 1316 days
Min 1 day
  1. A list of the hotels, hostels, bed and breakfasts and guest houses the council has used to house households in the last four full financial years.
  2. a) Please ensure that the response is clear where the same provider has been used in more than one financial year.
Agent 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23
ALTWOOD Yes Yes Yes Yes
CLANDON   Yes Yes Yes
COUNTY RENTS       Yes
CRANBROOK HOTEL       Yes
ESHER Management Limited       Yes
HOLLINGBURY HOTEL Yes Yes Yes Yes
IBIS LONDON ELSTREE BOREHAMWOOD       Yes
LOUISIANNA Yes Yes Yes Yes
PREMIER INN   Yes Yes Yes
RENTCONNEC Yes Yes Yes  
STEFPHIL Yes Yes Yes Yes
THEORI   Yes   Yes
TRAVELODGE Yes Yes Yes Yes
WOODHOUSE       Yes
Jurys Inn   Yes    
Freshview Yes Yes   Yes
Chumleigh Lodge Hotel Nether Street   Yes    
HOLLINGBUR       Yes
LHD Yes      
PYNNACLE   Yes Yes  
STONELODGE Yes Yes    
LBB Hostel     Yes Yes
Ramada   Yes Yes Yes

Your Rights

If you are unhappy with the way your request for information has been handled, you can request a review by emailing Talk2Us@barnethomes.org and marking it as an appeal for the attention of the Data Controller. There is no charge for making an appeal.

After this, if you remain dissatisfied with the handling of your request or complaint, you have the right to appeal to the Information Commissioner:

Kind regards,