Assignment Statistics
Dear District/City/Borough council,
In this request only information on voluntary assignments of council tenancies to those residing with the living tenant is requested (not court ordered transfers of tenancy, not succession following death and not mutual exchanges).
1. a. Please provide a typical Tenancy Agreement used by the council.
b. Please provide your policy, decision making guides, procedures, forms, instructions related to the tenancy assignment procedure.
2. For each of the last 4 years please provide the number of assignment requests received broken down into categories based on the proposed recipient and on whether the original tenant proposes to stay in the property after the assignment:
a. to spouse/partner, original tenant staying
b. to spouse/partner, original tenant leaving
c. to other relatives, original tenant staying
d. to other relatives, original tenant leaving
3. How many requests have been approved by the council broken down by year and categories as in 2 above.
4. How many requests have been rejected by the council broken down by year and categories as in 2 above.
5. How many days it took on average from receiving the request to applicants being notified of the decision broken down by year and category as in 2 above.
6. For the requests refused can you provide brief grounds for refusal grouped by year and categories as in 2 above.
If it would significantly improve efficiency feel free to align years to calendar/accounting/reporting/tax years that you use.
If responding to the request in full would take you over the applicable cost limit, then please narrow down the above request by reducing the number of years covered by the request to a number of years that would bring it within the limits. If even after reducing the time-frame just to one year the request is still outside the cost limit, please narrow it down to just one year and narrow down further by removing 6, then 5, then 4 from the above until the request is within the cost limits.
If breaking down information into categories specified in 2. would be prohibitively expensive/impossible please combine some of the categories to make the request possible.
Yours faithfully,
Malik Patel
Dear Sir,
Re: Your Freedom of Information Request - Acknowledgement
Thank you for your request for information dated 25th May 2022. We are
treating this as a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
The legislation allows us 20 working days to respond to your request.
Should you have any queries or concerns about how your request is being
handled, please do not hesitate to contact us further, quoting the above
reference, by emailing us at [Luton Borough Council request email]
Yours sincerely,
Isaac Blackwell
Complaints & Information Compliance Officer
Business Intelligence
3rd Floor
Arndale House
Luton Borough Council
Please find attached response to FOI request.
Many thanks
Nigel McArthur
Tenancy Services Manager
Luton Borough Council
Tel: 07892 766574
Email: [email address]
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Dear Luton Borough Council,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Luton Borough Council's handling of my FOI request 'Assignment Statistics'. Your reference: LU3196
You have refused request on costs grounds however supplying information requested in part 1 of teh request should have taken no more than 3 hours - therefor part1 of the request is definitely within the costs limits.
The requests details how it can be curtailed should cost limits be exceeded.
I accept you do not log in tenancy assignment requests in a way that captures all the information I have requested in a readily searchable computer system and hence you can not provide information requested by just pressing a few keys on a keyboard.
However generally authorities of your size have a relatively small number of assignments requests per year (0-20). Even if you had to individually open up each of the assignment request files to capture information requested in parts 2-6, it is very hard to think it could take more than 1 hour per assignment request (15-30 minutes being more likely time). Therefore, I am not prepared to readily accept that you could not satisfy Part 1 of the request AND Parts 2-6 in respect of 2021 at least.
Therefore please fully comply with Part1 of the request which would definitely be within the cost limit. If you insist that Parts 2 onwards are outside of cost limits even when curtailed just to one year please provide the total number of assignments requests received in the last four year broken down per year.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/a...
Yours faithfully,
Malik Patel
Dear Malik Patel,
Re: Your Freedom of Information Internal Review Request - Acknowledgement
Thank you for your request for information dated 4th July 2022. We are
treating this as a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
I apologies for the delay In responding to your reuqest for an internal
review. Please be assured that this request has now been received and is
currently being processed.
The legislation allows us 20 working days to respond to your request,
please expect a response by the 25^th July 2022 at the latest.
Should you have any queries or concerns about how your request is being
handled, please do not hesitate to contact us further, quoting the above
reference, by emailing us at [1][Luton Borough Council request email]
Yours sincerely,
Isaac Blackwell
Complaints & Information Compliance Officer
Business Intelligence
3^rd Floor
Arndale House
Luton Borough Council
Dear Malik Patel,
Please find attached our internal review of your FOI request LU3196 and
accompanying documents.
The review was logged under LU3856.
Regards,
Kat Barker
Data Governance and Information Compliance Manager
Business Intelligence
Luton Council
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