Response 3618451

Response to request for information

Reference

3618451

Response date

7 February 2025

Request

• Please provide a list of the weekly Housing Benefit eligible rent levels paid for all supported accommodation in this council area in the 2024/25 year (and if possible, clarify if these are supported but not exempt and supported exempt). Please provide this information in either spreadsheet or word processing software
• If you cannot provide a full list, please could you give the highest weekly rent paid in these categories

Response

The Council considers the information requested above to fall under the exemption in section 43(2) of the FOIA. The information requested is held by the Council.  However, the Council is of the view the information is commercially sensitive and having considered whether it would be in the public interest to provide you with the information has concluded that disclosing the information requested would prejudice the Council’s commercial interests and distort genuine competition resulting in the inflation of rent. I am satisfied that in all the circumstances of this case the public interest in withholding the information outweighs the public interest in disclosing it in accordance with section 43(2) of the FOIA.