North West Leicestershire District Council:Housing and Homelessness

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Dear North West Leicestershire District Council,
I am requesting the following information:

1. How many people are under Council’s Housing waiting list at present ?
Would you please specify the age group, gender and the number of minorities,BME community who are in the council's housing waiting list.

2. Would you please give specify how many people have applied for one bedroom, two bedroom, three bedroom, four bedroom,Five bedroom in year 2012-2013?

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 from January 2012 to December 2013.Please also specify their gender,age group and if possible ethnic identity.

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

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

6.Please share the total number of council house 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 2012 to December 2013,to build new council house/flat.

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 Council council.Please share the yearly the yearly of starting from January 2012 to December 2013.

10. Under Part VII of the Housing Act 1996 (as amended by the Homelessness Act 2002) 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 you take to process housing benefit claim. How many housing benefit claim has been process by the council since January 2012 to December 2013. 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 from January 2012 to December 2013.

13. How many people were successfully prosecuted for housing benefit fraud during year 2012 and 2013.

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,

William Gomes

FOI, North West Leicestershire District Council

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Corporate Directorate

Freedom of Information

Please ask for : Information Management Officer

Telephone: 01530 454721

Our Ref: NWL2147/13

Your Ref:

Date:22 January 2014

Dear Mr Gomes

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST

Thank you for your email of 20 January 2014 requesting information about
NWLDC Housing List & Homelessness.

Your request is being dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 and will be answered within twenty working days.

If you have any queries about this request do not hesitate to contact me.
Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future
communications.

Yours sincerely,

Sue Wright

Information Management Officer, Legal Services

Direct Line: 01530 454721

Email: [1][North West Leicestershire District Council request email]

Web: [2]www.nwleics.gov.uk

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Corporate Directorate

Freedom of Information

Please ask for : Information Management Officer

Telephone: 01530 454721

Our Ref: NWL2147/13

Your Ref:

Date:21 February 2014

Dear Mr Gomes

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST

Further to your request under the Freedom Of Information Act 2000 (FOIA)
for information relating to NWLDC Housing List & Homelessness I respond as
follows.

Under the FOIA any person making a request for information is entitled to
receive confirmation as to whether such information exists and is held by
the Council, and is entitled to have that information communicated to them
except where the requested information falls under one of the relevant
exemptions. In such a case the information is deemed to be exempt from the
Council’s duty to disclose it.

Following the Council’s assessment of the information and the relevant
exemptions, the Council also has a duty to determine whether the release
of the information is in the public interest, despite the exemption
applied to it. 

All FOIA requests are therefore dealt with on a threefold analysis.

1)     Whether the Authority can identify the information requested

2)     Whether there is an exemption within the FOIA which prevents the
information from being released

3)     Whether, despite the exemption, it is in the public interest to
release the information requested.

Taking this analysis into account I now deal with your request for
information.

You have requested information relating to NWLDC Housing List &
Homelessness in your questions below and taking the above threefold test
into account the Authority can confirm that it holds the information you
have requested. In applying the second test, the Authority concedes that
there is no relevant exemption to this request and as such have enclosed
the information requested, please see below and attached. As there is no
relevant exemption, there is no need to apply the third stage public
interest assessment.

1.     How many people are under Council’s Housing  waiting list at
present ?

2.     Would you please specify the age group, gender and  the number of
minorities, BME community who are in the council's housing waiting list.

3.     Would you please give specify  how many people  have applied for
one bedroom, two bedroom, three bedroom, four bedroom,Five bedroom  in
year 2012-2013?

4.     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 from January 2012 to December
2013.Please also specify their gender,age group and if possible ethnic
identity.

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

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

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

8.     Please provide how much council had spent yearly since January 2012
to December 2013,to build new council house/flat.

9.     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 Council. Please share the yearly
the yearly of starting from January 2012 to December 2013.

10.  Under Part VII of the Housing Act 1996 (as amended by the
Homelessness Act 2002)  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 you take to process housing benefit claim. How many housing
benefit claim has been process by the council since January 2012 to
December 2013. 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 from
January 2012 to December 2013.

13.  How many people were successfully prosecuted for housing benefit
fraud during year 2012 and 2013.

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.

1.     & 2.  As at 22 January 2014, NWLDC have a total of 878 active
applications. The lead applicant on each application falls into the
following  age groups:

16-17 2
18 - 24 107
25 - 39 267
40 - 54 217
55 - 59 57
60 - 74 163
75 plus 65
Total of Age of household member Group 878

Gender

Females 538

Males 340

Ethnicity

There are 13 separate ethnicities recorded of which 778 or 89% are White
British

2.     The Authority is unable to provide the historical data for 2012-13
but for the 878 current active applicants the bedroom need is as follows:

1 bed 2 bed 3 bed 4 bed 5 bed 6 bed Total of Bedroom Need
450 297 95 31 4 1 878

3.    

2012 2013
Jan – Mar = N/A Jan – Mar = 16
April – June = 22 Apr – June = 26
July – Sept = 32 July – Sept = 18
Oct – Dec = 24 Oct – Dec = 20

                *Information on gender, age group and ethnic identity is
not held

4.     As at 22 January 2014, the number of homeless people on the waiting
list, owed the main homelessness duty is 7

5.     Please see our Preventing Homelessness Strategy [1]here. Details of
our budget (staffing costs excluded) are show on page 23

6.     Please see Stock Information attached

7.     Nil

8.     Please see link to the current strategy at Question 5 above.

9.     Please see link to the current strategy at Question 5 above.

10.  Please see Attached & below

2012 2013
January – March = N/A January to March = 20

(4 families aged 19 to 64 yrs)

(4 lone parent females aged 23 to 36
yrs)

(5 single females aged 17 to 54 yrs)

(7 single males aged 19 to 48 yrs)
April – June = 21 April to June = 16

(10 families aged 30 – 60yrs) (5 families ages 18 to 45 yrs)

(11 single parent females aged 21 to (5 lone parent females aged 22 to 34
38 yrs) yrs)

(6 single females aged 17 to 63 yrs) (1 single female aged 49yrs)

(7 single males aged 17 to 60 yrs) ( 4 single males aged 21 to 67yrs)
July – Sept = 21 July – Sept = 5

(3 families aged 20 to 51 yrs) (4 families aged 27 to 40 yrs)

( 4 single parent females aged 32 to ( 4 single females aged 17 to 48
37 yrs) yrs)

( 1 single female aged 17yrs) ( 7 single males aged 17 to 67 yrs )

( 13 single males aged 16 to 48 yrs)
Oct – Dec = 8 Oct – Dec = 5

( 3 lone parent females aged 22 to 33 ( 3 single females aged 20 to 23
yrs) yrs)

( 2 single females aged 16 to 35 yrs) ( 2 single males aged 19 to 46 yrs)

( 3 single males aged 19 to 29yrs)

11.  15.93 days to process.  From 1st January 2012- 1st January 2013 the
Authority processed 1692 housing benefit claims. From 1st January 2013-
1st January 2014 the Authority processed 1498 housing benefit claims

12.  Our financial year runs from April to March and the staffing costs to
provide the housing advice service for that period was in the region of
£183k . This includes management costs but excludes the costs associated
with maintenance of the housing register and operation of the Choice Based
Lettings system.

13. 

Persons Prosecuted for Benefit Fraud
01 April – 31 March 2013 01 April – 31 Dec 2013
9 17

14.  No

I hope the information supplied is to your satisfaction however, if it is
not please feel free to contact me on the number below should you have any
queries in relation to this response. Please note that in responding to
further enquiries I can only comment on the information contained within
this correspondence and cannot provide any further information that may
pertain to an additional FOIA request.

Yours sincerely,

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Sue Wright

Information Management Officer, Corporate, Legal Services

Direct Line: 01530 454721

Email: [2][North West Leicestershire District Council request email]

Web: [3]www.nwleics.gov.uk

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COUNCIL OFFICES,  COALVILLE,  LEICESTERSHIRE,  LE67 3FJ   .   TEL (01530)
454545  .   FAX (01530) 454506

DX 23662 COALVILLE  .   MINICOM (01530) 454542  .  WEB SITE
[4]http://www.nwleics.gov.uk

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