Credit Check Investigation

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Dear Kettering Borough Council,

1. Do you have an contract in place to purchase credit checks, or a purchase history from any of the following credit reference agencies?
(Call Credit/TransUnion, Equifax, Experian or Other(Please specify))

If so, can you please provide the following information.
2. Date that your agreement expires
3. Quantity of Credit Checks Purchased
4. Cost of Credit checks (Ideally cost per credit check)
5. What activities/services use these credit checks

6. Can you please outline how the results from these credit checks are generally stored by the council. For example are they in PDF format, or does your supplier have a software platform that you log into?

7. Finally, can you please inform me if you use credit checks to verify Single Person Discount claims for Council Tax? If so, is this done internally by the council, or do you outsource this work to a third party?

For avoidance of doubt, I am making this request under the Freedom of Information Act. I await your response within 20 working days.

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Yours faithfully,

T Gregory

FOI, Kettering Borough Council

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Dear Mr/Mrs/Ms Gregory

 

Please find attached the council’s response to your recent enquiry.

 

Kind regards

 

 

Karen Sait

Executive Assistant

(Information Governance)

 

SMT Support

Kettering Borough Council

Municipal Offices

Bowling Green Road

Kettering

NN15 7QX

 

Telephone: 01536 535624

 

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