Dear Jon Patience,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 (FOIA) - REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

The City of London (CoL) acknowledges receipt of your request for information of 16 July 2023.

Public authorities are required to respond to requests within the statutory timescale of 20 working days beginning from the first working day after they receive a request. The Act does not always require public authorities to disclose the information which they hold.

The FOIA applies to the CoL as a local authority, police authority and port health authority. The CoL is the local and police authority for the "Square Mile", ie the historic City of London, and not for London as a whole. Please see the following page containing a link to a map (City of London - Interactive Mapping), which shows the local authority area covered by the CoL:
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Yours sincerely,

Information Officer
Comptroller & City Solicitor's Department
City of London
Tel: 020-7332 1243
http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/

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Dear Jon Patience,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 (FOIA) - INFORMATION REQUEST

Following your request for information of 16 July 2023, and our
acknowledgement of 17 July 2023, the City of London (CoL) responds as
follows.

For each calendar year from 2017, and for 2023 to date :

 1. The number of complaints relating to conditions of properties in the
Private Rented Sector the Council received:

2023 to date - 9

2022 - 21

2021 - 14

2020 - 19

2019 - 15

2018 - 11

2017 - 5

 2. The number of each of the following notice that were issued by the
Council in relation to private rented homes:

 a. an Improvement Notice - 0 (zero)
 b. an Emergency Remedial Action Notice - 0 (zero)
 c. a Prohibition Order - 0 (zero)

 3. The number of prosecutions brought by the Council in relation to
conditions in private rented properties - 0 (zero)

 4. The number of:

 a. Notices of Intent - 0 (zero)
 b. Final Notices for civil penalties issued by the Council relating to
housing matters - 0 (zero)

 5. The number of occasions on which the Council has assisted a tenant to
obtain a Rent Repayment Order - 0 (zero)

We hope that this response is of assistance.

If you have any queries or concerns, please contact us.

If you wish to make a complaint about the way the CoL has managed your
enquiry, please make your complaint in writing to email address;
[1][email address]. For a link to the CoL’s FOI
complaints procedure, please visit the following page:
[2]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Feedback, at the end of which is located the
FOI complaints procedure. If, having used the CoL’s FOI Complaints
Procedure, you are still dissatisfied, you may request the Information
Commissioner to investigate. Please contact: Information Commissioner,
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. Telephone: 0303
123 1113.  Website: [3]www.ico.org.uk/foicomplaints

The FOIA applies to the CoL as a local authority, police authority and
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(GSMD), which it manages. Subject to any other statutory provisions
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Yours sincerely,

Business Planning & Compliance Officer | Business Services
Division

City of London | Environment Department | Guildhall | London
EC2V 7HH
Tel: 020 7606 3030

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