Dear Ms Norris,

Thank you for your request dated 27 February 2024, asking for information that we hold as follows; please see our response below in blue:

  1. Between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2023, has your council used caravans and/or holiday parks to provide temporary accommodation to people presenting as homeless. Please provide a Yes/No answer.

 

No

By presenting as homeless, I mean people who have presented to the council as homeless, and who the council has a duty to house, and therefore provided temporary accommodation before finding more secure housing. 

1a. 

If yes, please can you also provide:

The name of the caravan/holiday park accommodation provider 

The amount paid by the council to the caravan/holiday park accommodation provider per financial year 

The number of people housed in caravans/holiday park accommodation

  1. Between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2023, has your council used hotels to provide temporary accommodation to people presenting as homeless. Please provide a Yes/No answer.

2a. 

If yes, please can you also provide:

The name of the hotel accommodation provider 

Barnet uses Click Travel to book commercial hotels for people presenting as homeless when there is no other accommodation available.

The amount paid by the council to the accommodation provider per financial year 

Payments made to Click Travel for hotel accommodation in the past 2 financial years are:  

2021-2022- £ 69,368

2022-2023 – £532,365

The number of people in hotel accommodation

See below the number of Placements in commercial hotels through Click Travel

2021- 2022- 352 placements

2022 – 2023- 750 placements

  1. Between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2023, has your council provided tents to provide temporary accommodation to people presenting as homeless. Please provide a Yes/No answer.

 

NO

3a.

If yes, please can you also provide:

The total costs spent on tents per financial year

The number of people to have received tents

Your Rights

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Kind regards