Homeless due to end of private tenancy

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Dear Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea,

Could you please provide information, under the Freedom of Information Act, for each of the last 10 years on the total number of people presenting as homeless, and of those the number presenting due to the end of a private rented tenancy?

Yours faithfully,

Tom Chance

Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

Dear Mr Chance

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REQUEST REF: 2015-1206

I am writing to confirm that we received your information request on 23 September 2015.

For your information and future communications your request has been allocated the reference number FOI2015-1206. Please quote this reference in any future correspondence.

We will consider your request and respond in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Our duty is to respond promptly or at least within 20 working days.

Yours sincerely

Paul Stott Data Protection Officer Shared ICT Service
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
The Town Hall, Hornton Street, London, W8 7NX
Tel: 07739315339
Email: [email address] Website: www.rbkc.gov.uk

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Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

Dear Mr Chance

 

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REF: 2015-1206

 

I am responding to your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000,
which we received on 23 September 2015, for information held by the
Council. You requested:

 

Data covering the last 10 years on the total number of people presenting
as homeless, and of those the number presenting due to the end of a
private rented tenancy?

 

The below table details the requested data:

 

Number of
Homeless
Applications Cause of Homelessness
Other reason than Private Termination of
termination of AST-private Sector AST-private or
Financial Year or Tied Accommodation Arrears tied Accommodation Total
2005-06 26 6 145 177
2006-07 96 14 132 242
2007-08 127 26 111 264
2008-09 148 18 93 259
2009-10 140 16 115 271
2010-11 128 28 187 343
2011-12 171 47 301 519
2012-13 255 31 380 666
2013-14 109 27 242 378
2014-15 79 28 212 319
Total 1279 241 1918 3438

 

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Regards

 

 

Paul Stott  Data Protection Officer  Shared ICT Service

The Royal Borough of  Kensington and Chelsea

The Town Hall, Hornton Street, London, W8 7NX

Tel: 07739315339

Email: [email address] Website: www.rbkc.gov.uk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Dear Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea,

Thank you for supplying the data. Unfortunately, I submitted this request via a website that has made the table incomprehensible. You can see this here:

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/h...

Would it be possible to email the table directly to me at [email address]?

Yours faithfully,

Tom Chance

Richard Taylor left an annotation ()

Tom,

I've made a table available in Google Sheets at:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...

The council released the information via what looks like HTML generated from Microsoft Word / Excel copied into an email message. I suspect many email applications would have struggled with it and the presentation in the thread is actually much better than some means of decoding it I tried.

In future perhaps consider asking for information as a csv file for easy re-use.

Regards,

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Richard - WhatDoTheyKnow.com volunteer

Tom Chance left an annotation ()

Thanks Richard.