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Dear Ms Smyth

Please find attached acknowledgement of your request below.

Regards

Lynda Hamilton | Private Rented Branch | Housing Division | Department for
Communities

Level 3| Causeway Exchange | 1-7 Bedford Street | Belfast | BT2 7EG

Contact: * [email address] | ( Tel: (028) 9051 5298
| ( DD: 75298

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From: Anna Smith <[1][FOI #782676 email]>

Sent: 16 August 2021 18:12

To: DfC FOI <[2][DfC request email]>

Subject: Freedom of Information request - Information on Landlord
Registration Scheme [UNSCANNED]

Dear Department for Communities (Northern Ireland),

I am writing with a Freedom of Information request about the Landlord
Registration Scheme.

Please could you supply me with as much as possible of the following
information:

1. The number of landlords and private rented properties currently
registered with the Landlord Registration Scheme (if possible, broken down
by local authority) 2. Any estimate you hold of the number of private
rented properties in Northern Ireland that remain unregistered 3. The
revenue received by, and operating costs for, the Landlord Registration
Scheme for each year since its inception 4. The number of landlords in
Northern Ireland who have been prosecuted since the Landlord Registration
Scheme was introduced for either a) failing to register or b) other
offences under Parts 1 and 2 of the Housing Act 2004 or other relevant
legislation.

5. Any information available on how the Landlord Registration Scheme's
fees were calculated 6. And finally, please supply any evaluation you have
carried out on the impact of the Landlord Registration Scheme.

Thanks very much for your help, and please do not hesitate to contact me
if I can clarify any of these requests.

Yours faithfully,

Anna Smith

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Dear Anna

Please find attached the response to your recent FOI request.

I hope you find the information helpful.

Regards

Heather

Heather Cammock | Private Rented Branch| Housing Division | Department for
Communities

Level 3 | Causeway Exchange, 1-7 Bedford St | Belfast

| BT2 7EG

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Tel: (028) 9082 3433| ( DD: 39433

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