Credit Check Investigation

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Dear East Northamptonshire District 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, East Northamptonshire District Council

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Thank you for your Freedom of Information request.

 

The reference number for your request is 16047.

 

You should receive a response to your request within 20 working days
(23/10/2020).

 

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From: T Gregory [mailto:[FOI #694099 email]]
Sent: 25 September 2020 17:08
To: foi
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Credit Check Investigation

 

This Message originated outside your organisation.

Dear East Northamptonshire District 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

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Good morning.

 

Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request.

 

This has been handled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and your
reference number is 16047.

 

Please find attached the Council’s response.

 

Regards

 

Jacqui Calvert

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From: T Gregory [mailto:[FOI #694099 email]]
Sent: 25 September 2020 17:08
To: foi
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Credit Check Investigation

 

This Message originated outside your organisation.

Dear East Northamptonshire District 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

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of the addressee. Please do not forward without consideration of the
origins of the email and any data included within. Please note that this
and any responses to this email may be subject to the Freedom of
Information Act 2000/Data Protection Act 2018.

Any views or opinions expressed in this e-mail do not necessarily
represent those of East Northamptonshire Council and are not to be relied
upon without subsequent written confirmation by an authorised
representative.

If you are not the addressee any disclosure, reproduction, distribution,
forwarding or other dissemination or use is strictly prohibited. If you
have received this in error please notify the council’s Data Protection
Officer via [4][email address]

East Northamptonshire Council takes the protection of your personal data
seriously. Full details can be found in the council’s [5]Privacy Statement

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