Please advise:
1. How many homeless households you placed in accommodation outside your LA area in the financial year 2023/24. Please provide a breakdown of which local authority areas they were placed. Please also advise how many were with private landlords, in hostels or in hotels.
2. How many homeless households you placed in accommodation outside your LA area in the financial year 2023/24 where incentive payments were paid upfront to private landlords to accept them. Please advise the total spending (if any) in this respect.
3. How many homeless households you placed in accommodation inside your LA area in the financial year 2023/24. Please also advise how many were with private landlords, in hostels or in hotels.
4. How many complaints against private landlords within your LA area you received in the financial year 2023/24 for failing to maintain required minimum standards. How many inspections you carried out as a result and how improvement notices you issued - whether as a result of these complaints or proactively.
5. How many complaints against private landlords within your LA area
you received in the financial year 2023/24 for failing to maintain required minimum standards. How many inspections you carried out as a result and how improvement notices you issued - whether as a result of these complaints or proactively - were for properties that the Council had placed tenants in.