1. The total expenditure on Housing Benefit for exempt accommodation between 1st January 2024 and 31st December 2025, broken down by year.
We do not report on this, this would take a significant amount of time to gather the information to answer this question, exceeding the cost of compliance. (Section 12) Our Benefits manager has advised they have approx 360 claims that would have been paid as exempt accommodation over this period. They would manually have to go into each claim and pull out the payment data and then calculate it for each year. This process could potentially take at least 10 minutes per claim and would therefore take approximately 60 hours.

2. The number of distinct landlords OR providers receiving Housing Benefit payments for exempt accommodation between 1st January 2024 and 31st December 2025, broken down by year.
2024: 17
2025: 17

For clarity, “exempt accommodation” refers to accommodation where Housing Benefit is paid under the exempt accommodation provisions of the Housing Benefit Regulations. If your authority records this under a different but equivalent category (e.g. specified accommodation), please provide the closest available data and specify the definition used.