FOI release

Accommodation outside the local authority

Case reference FOI2025/00688

Received 6 August 2025

Published 26 August 2025

Request

For the following calendar years (separately): 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, as well as the half-year Jan 1 - June 30 2025 1. The number of a) households and b) individuals your authority has secured accommodation for outside of the local authority under refugee resettlement schemes, broken down by local authority area they were placed into. Please only include those who accepted the accommodation placement. 2. The number of a) households and b) individuals your authority has secured accommodation for outside of the local authority under duties to prevent/relieve homelessness, broken down by local authority area they were placed into. Please only include those who accepted the accommodation placement. Please exclude any people already included in question 1. 3. Of those listed in Q2, the number of a) households and b) individuals who were refugees, broken down by local authority they were placed into.

Response

1. The number of a) households and b) individuals your authority has secured accommodation for outside of the local authority under refugee resettlement schemes, broken down by local authority area they were placed into. Please only include those who accepted the accommodation placement.

A

2021 - 0

2022 - 0

2023 - 0

2024 - 0

2025 (so far) - 0

B

2021 - 0

2022 - 0

2023 - 0

2024 - 0

2025 (so far) - 0

2. The number of a) households and b) individuals your authority has secured accommodation for outside of the local authority under duties to prevent/relieve homelessness, broken down by local authority area they were placed into. Please only include those who accepted the accommodation placement. Please exclude any people already included in question 1.

A

2021 - Prevention = 6 (Crawley X 1, Tonbridge & Malling X 1, Maidstone X 2, Wealden x 2)

Relief - 1 (Wealden X 1)

2022 - Prevention = 9 (Birmingham X 1, Liverpool X 1, Tonbridge & Malling X 1, Sevenoaks X 1, Maidstone X 2, Canterbury X 1, Darlington X 2)

Relief - 11 (County Durham X 1, Wealden X 1, Ashford X 1, Maidstone X 3, Tonbridge & Malling X 4, Nuneaton & Bedworth X 1)

2023 - Prevention = 6 (Waltham Forest X 1, Trafford X 1, Maidstone X 1, Wealden X 1, Rother X 1, Portsmouth X 1)

Relief - 18 (Brighton & Hove X 1, Eastbourne X 1, Canterbury X 1, Sevenoaks X 1, Tonbridge & Malling X 4, East Staffordshire X 1, Bexley X 1, Eastbourne X 1, Tonbridge & Malling X 2, Birmingham X 1, City of London X 1, Bromley X 1, Southwark X 1, Mid Sussex X 1)

2024 - Prevention = 15 (Wealden X 3, Ashford X 2, Canterbury X 1, Maidstone X 5, Swale X 2, Rugby X 1, Mid Sussex X 1)

Relief - 25 (Medway X 2, Cheshire East X 1, Wealden X 1, Ashford X 1, Canterbury X 2, Dartford X 1, Dover X 1, Gravesham X 1, Maidstone X 2, Sevenoaks X 3, Thanet X 1, Tonbridge & Malling X 5, Mid Suffolk X 1, Mid Sussex X 1, City of London X 1)

2025 (so far) - Prevention = 10 (Medway X 1, Slough X 1, Wiltshire X 1, Hastings X 1, Rother X 1, Ashford X 1, Maidstone X 1, Sevenoaks X 1, Tonbridge & Malling X 2)

Relief - 7 (Stoke on Trent X 1, Torbay X 1, Mid Devon X 1, Chelmsford X 1, Gravesham X 1, Mole Volley X 1, Redbridge X 1)

B

2021 - Prevention = 11

Relief - 4

2022 - Prevention = 21

Relief - 15

2023 - Prevention = 10

Relief - 25

2024 - Prevention = 32

Relief - 39

2025 (so far) - Prevention = 18

Relief - 14

3. Of those listed in Q2, the number of a) households and b) individuals who were refugees, broken down by local authority they were placed into.

A

2021 - Prevention = 0 / Relief = 0

2022 - Prevention = 0 / Relief = 0

2023 - Prevention = 0 / Relief = 0

2024 - Prevention = 0 / Relief = 0

2025 (so far) - Prevention = 0 / Relief = 0

B

2021 - Prevention = 0 / Relief = 0

2022 - Prevention = 0 / Relief = 0

2023 - Prevention = 0 / Relief = 0

2024 - Prevention = 0 / Relief = 0

2025 (so far) - Prevention = 0 / Relief = 0

Documents

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This is Tunbridge Wells Borough Council's response to a freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) request.