Please provide:
1. The total budget in pounds (£) and the percentage of your Local Authorities total budget spent on non-statutory obligations funding in each of the financial years a) 2019-20, b) 2020-21, c) 2021-22, d) 2022-23, e) 2023-24
Compliance with this request would exceed the appropriate cost limit under Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 which is £450 or 18 hours of officer time. This is because our chart of accounts is not constructed to enable the reporting of statutory from non-statutory services and to locate, retrieve and extract information in scope would take in excess of 18 hours of officer time.
Under the Act, there is a duty to provide advice and assistance as to how a request can be refined to fit within the appropriate limit. Unfortunately, due to the way the data is held, this is not possible for this request.
2. The total budget in pounds (£) and the percentage of your Local Authorities total budget spent on social care funding in each of the financial years a) 2019-20, b) 2020-21, c) 2021-22, d) 2022-23, e) 2023-24
For Adult social care, Information in response is provided in the relevant reports on the Budgets and expenditure pages of our website. With regard to the percentage (%) of total budget spent, Devon County Council does not hold this information.
For Children’s social care, information in response is provided on this spreadsheet.
3. The total budget in pounds (£) and the percentage of your Local Authorities total budget spent on temporary accommodation funding in each of the financial years a) 2019-20, b) 2020-21, c) 2021-22, d) 2022-23, e) 2023-24
Devon County Council does not hold this information, this is because Devon County Council is not responsible for housing. This is the responsibility of district and unitary authorities.