You asked
Please provide the average rent paid for all social housing, broken for:
a single person;
an unmarried person with 2 children; and
a family (2 adults) with 2 children
If commercial rents were used for each of these please provide how much would they be.
For the above categories please provide the total cost of support if the persons are unemployed, including health and education costs, social housing etc per year.
We said
Thank you for your request regarding average rental costs for social and private renters for specified household compositions.
Unfortunately, this information is not available. However, the information on average rental expenditure you asked for can be calculated by the customer services team of ONS Social Surveys Operations Division. Special extracts and tabulations from the Living Costs and Food Survey (LCF) are available to order from this service, which is subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs, where appropriate.
If you would like to enquire about our service then please contact socialsurveys@ons.gov.uk
Because this information is available through that route, we consider that Freedom of Information Act s.21(1) applies to this request and the information does not have to be supplied under the Freedom of Information Act. S.21(1) is an absolute exemption and no consideration of the public interest needs to be applied.
If you are able to do your own cross-tabulations you could purchase an anonymised LCF dataset from the UK Data Service. Details on costs and how to download the data can be found on their website:
Advice for commercial users - http://ukdataservice.ac.uk/get-data/how-to-access/registration.aspx#/tab-commercial-users
Charges - http://ukdataservice.ac.uk/get-data/how-to-access/charges.aspx