Dear Coventry City Council,
I am requesting the following information:

1. How many people are on the Council’s waiting list at present for housing?
Would you please specify the age group, gender and the number of minorities, BME community.

2. Would you please give specify how many people have applied for shared accommodation, one bedroom, two bedroom, three bedroom, four bedroom, five bedroom since January 2011?

3.Please provide number of how many people you have accommodated following the statutory duty under housing act who have been declared themselves as homeless and sissified the homelessness assessment process. Please give number by year starting since January 2011. Please also specify their gender,age group and if possible ethnic identity.

4.Please provide number the people who are in current city council waiting list who are homeless.

5.Please share what are the present council policy to address homelessness in the city. And how council is allocating budget for that.

6.Please share the total number of council houses and please specify the type of the house and number and area and how many are current empty.

7.Please provide how much council had spent yearly since January 2011 to build new council accommodation.

8.According to the Housing Act 1996 (as amended by the Homelessness Act 2002) all Local Authorities must have a Homelessness Strategy in place What are the homelessness strategy of the City Council council.

10. Under Part VII of the Housing Act 1996 (as amended by the Homelessness Act 2002) City Council has certain responsibilities towards people who are homeless or threatened with
homelessness. Would you please provide number, age,gender to whom you provided service following the specific law.

11.How long does the council take to process housing benefit claim. How many housing benefit claim has been process by the City council since January 2011. Please provide number of each year.

12. How much council had spent to pay the employee who are working on homeless issues in council. Please give yearly details starting since January 2011.

13. How many people were successfully prosecuted for housing benefit fraud yearly since 2011.

14.Did council appointed any third party to find out or tackle benefit fraud. If yes, Who is the company and how much council has paid them for the service.

Yours faithfully,

David Shipp

Dear Information Governance,

Request ID: REQ01422

In regards to Q11 ‘How long does the council take to process housing benefit claim?
How many housing benefit claim has been process by the City council since January
2011. Please provide number of each year.’

Please provide all of the below information:

1. live caseload figure for each year
2. number of new claims processed
3. number of all claims including changes in circumstances

Yours sincerely,

David Shipp

Dear Information Governance,

I am writing regarding a recent request for information.

Please can you forward the information promptly.

Yours sincerely,

David Shipp