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I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 regarding homelessness among refugees in your local authority area. Specifically, I would like to receive the following information:
Annual data, for the past six financial years, 2019 to 2025 (to date) on the number of individuals recognised as refugees who have been assessed or recorded by your authority as homeless. For the relevant period, please provide the following information, broken down by financial year (or calendar year, if more appropriate):

1. The total number of individuals who have approached your authority seeking assistance as homeless.
This information can be found via https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics and by using the relevant detailed local authority level tables for each year/ quarter

2. Of those who approached your authority as homeless, how many were recognised as refugees — i.e., individuals granted refugee status or humanitarian protection with leave to remain.
This information can be found via https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/homelessness-statistics and by using the relevant detailed local authority level tables for each year/ quarter

3. Of the homeless individuals recognised as refugees, how many were granted their refugee status and leave to remain by a different local authority.
We do not have this information

4. Total annual spending on homelessness for each of the past six financial years (or as many as you are able to provide within the s.12 limit). This should cover:
a) Support provided under statutory homelessness duties;
19/20 – £313, 500.53
20/21 – £1,006,199.93
21/22 – £921,669.73
22/23 – £1,177,859.40
23/24 – £1,349, 971.99
24/25 – £889,707.81
25 to date - £450,373.93
b) Support for individuals presenting informally or via referral who do not qualify for statutory assistance: N/A

5. Of the total homelessness spend, how much was spent on homeless individuals with refugee status
Unable to provide this information between 2019 and 2023 as we did not record this separately to overall spend up until financial year 23/24 and to determine costs prior to this would exceed time limit (section12) as every single homelessness case would need to be checked to determine if they have refugee status and then each case costed to provide a total.
19/20 – unable to provide
20/21 – unable to provide
21/22 – unable to provide
22/23 – unable to provide
23/24 – £81, 6781
24/25 – £20,291
25 to date - £47, 083