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I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following Information. I am seeking information regarding the provision of temporary accommodation in your local authority. I am seeking answers to the following: 1. Could you please provide me with a breakdown of the number of individuals/families you housed in temporary accommodation each year for the previous four years? Could you please break this down by financial year starting from 2019/20? 2. Could you please provide me with the total amount spent on temporary accommodation across the last five years? Could you please break this down by financial year starting 2019/20 3. Could you please provide the names of all of the companies you paid for accommodation that was used as temporary accommodation across the last four years? Could you please break this down by financial year starting 2019/20? Could this be providing on an excel spreadsheet in the below format for each year: Name of company Number of temporary accommodation (rooms/flats) Total amount paid 19/20 eg) Temporary Accommodation Hotels Ltd. 39 rooms £43,000 TA providers Ltd 4 rooms £12,000 If you are unable to provide this four all for years but can provide for the last one, or two etc, please do that.
Published: 28 October 2024
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Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request the following information: 1. The total expenditure by your local authority on providing temporary accommodation in the private rental sector for each year since 2019. 2. A breakdown of the total expenditure for each year on: (a.) rent paid to private landlords, (b.) deposits, (c.) fees/commissions paid to letting agents, and (d.) any other associated costs (please specify) I would like this information provided in an Excel spreadsheet or other digital document format if possible.
Published: 28 October 2024
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In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000, we request the following information: 1. How much money the council has paid to hotels, hostels, bed and breakfasts and guest houses for use as temporary or emergency accomodation 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) 2. 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) 3. 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 (eg. a flat or house) or before the council discharged their housing duty. 4. 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. a) Please ensure that the response is clear where the same provider has been used in more than one financial year. As you know, under the act you are required to provide a response within 20 days. If you do not provide the information requested, you must explain the legal basis for the information being withheld. If you decline part of the request due to information being sensitive, the request being too vague, or reasonable cost being exceeded, you must still provide the part you can fulfil. I look forward to hearing from you.
Published: 28 October 2024
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I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following data pertaining to households with children in temporary accommodation. If any part of the data cannot be provided, please provide the rest and clearly mark which is not available and explain why. This FOI is similar to one filed earlier this year, but refers to a different time period. Please provide the data for two (2) time periods: end of June 2024, end of June 2023 1a. Number of households with children aged under 5 in temporary accommodation 1b. Number of households with children (under 5) in temporary accommodation for more than 6 weeks 1c. Number of households with children (under 5) in temporary accommodation for more than 6 months 1d. Total number of children aged under 5 in temporary accommodation (not number of households) 2a. Number of households with children aged under 5 in b&b temporary accommodation 2b. Number of households with children (under 5) in b&b temporary accommodation for more than 6 weeks 2c. Number of households with children (under 5) in b&b temporary accommodation for more than 6 months 2d. Total number of children aged under 5 in b&b temporary accommodation (not number of households)
Published: 28 October 2024
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To Whom It May Concern, I am in the process of conducting some market research into the Private Hire market across the UK. Could you please provide a list of Private Hire Operators licensed by your authority.
Published: 25 October 2024
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Please could you provide the most up-to-date figures you have on the average time (in days if possible) that homeless applicants owed the main homelessness duty on the housing register take to be housed for 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 bedroom properties.
Published: 25 October 2024
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Dear Oxford City Council, Please can your provide Agency Spend reports by department to include the following: 1. What was the value of spend on temporary staff from recruitment agencies by the Council from Jan 2022 - DEc2022, Jan 2023 - Dec 2023 and 2024 year to date? 2. If you have a managed service provider (MSP) in place for the provision of temporary agency staff, please provide the following. 2a. How was the contract to manage/provide the supply of agency/temporary staff let? 2b. Who was the contract to manage/provide the supply of agency/temporary staff let to? 2c. When did the contract to manage/provide the supply of temporary/agency staff commence, how long does it run for and what is the end date? 3. If you use Frameworks, please state which frameworks you use and for which categories of staff 4.If you don't have a managed service provider (MSP) in place for the provision of temporary recruitment agency staff, which recruitment agencies do you use, and what basis were they awarded? 5. Please can you provide details of the names of the decision-makers who ultimately decide which recruitment agencies your organisation uses. 6. Please provide the name(s) of the person(s) who the manage the recruitment agency contract on a day-to-day basis. 7.How much spend if any was off contract Many thanks for your time in this matter
Published: 24 October 2024
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Hi, Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would request you to respond to questions included in the attachment. For any reason if you are unable to open the attachment do let me know. I can then send the questions within the email itself. Please note: If you do not have records relating to the questions in the attachment, please pass on this request to your IT department to provide us with the required information.
Published: 23 October 2024
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Please find below some questions about how the council is implementing Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG): 1. Please can you fill in the table below to indicate what, if any, software the council has obtained specifically to help with implementing the following aspects of BNG? BNG-related need Software obtained for this purpose Validation of applications, including checking that the correct version of the Biodiversity Metric has been submitted. Determination of applications subject to BNG, including assessment of ecological considerations. Determining if the biodiversity gain objective (biodiversity gain condition) is met. Monitoring of planning obligations set out under S106 agreements or Conservation Covenants, analogous to other planning obligations. Ecological monitoring of BNG habitats, a new statutory duty required by legislation, including ensuring that individual habitats on a given site are progressing in line with expectations set out in the Habitat Management and Monitoring Plan. Statutory reporting of BNG habitat progress under the NERC Act Biodiversity Duty. 2. Is the council generating income, or planning to generate income, by charging BNG monitoring fees? If so, how are you calculating this fee? 3. Please can you fill in the table below, with respect to whether the council has made use of the government's new burdens funding for BNG: Financial year BNG burdens funding spent by the council What this BNG burdens funding was spent on 23/24 £ 24/25 £
Published: 23 October 2024
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Which officer at the council is responsible for biodiversity net gain and should be contacted about landowner and developer s106 agreements securing BNG? Does the council have a template for an offsite biodiversity gain site section 106 agreement and if so could a link to this be provided?
Published: 23 October 2024
