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Dear Oliver,

Freedom of Information Act 2000 Response

Further to our acknowledgement we can now respond to your request for
information dated 5 May 2022 asking about the number of lesbian, gay,
bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals who made a homeless
application as legally homeless and/or being threatened with homelessness
between January 2018 and April 2022.

We have dealt with your request in accordance with ‘your right to know’
under section 1(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA), which
entitles you to be provided with a copy of any information ‘held’ by a
public authority, unless an appropriate exemption applies.

In your email of 5 May 2022 you asked for the following information to
which I have added our response in red text below:

(i)            The number of individuals making a homeless application
while 'legally homeless' since 2018, broken down into sexual orientation
(including transgender), per month, per year and grand total;

(ii) The number of individuals making a homeless application 'threatened
with homelessness' since 2018, broken down into sexual orientation
(including transgender), per month, per year and grand total;

(iii) The number of individuals supported into accommodation
(temporary/emergency) since 2018, broken down into sexual orientation
(including transgender), per month, per year and grand total;

(iv) The number of individuals owed a prevention and/or relief duty since
2018, broken down into sexual orientation (including transgender), per
month, per year and grand total;

(v) The number of individuals to date, still waiting to be supported into
accommodation, broken down by sexual orientation (including transgender).

Please see the attached spreadsheet which details the information. Please
note that our data is collected from April 2018 and the categories on our
case management system are as follows:

Other sexual orientation

Gay

Lesbian

Bisexual

Transgender

Other

Please also note that questions 1 and 2 are the same question in terms of
our case management system.

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From: Oliver Murphy <[FOI #859314 email]>
Sent: 05 May 2022 13:18
To: FOI <[email address]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Number of LGBT individuals
making a homeless application between 2018-2022

Dear FOI Team,

I write to request information on the number of lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender (LGBT) individuals who made a homeless application as legally
homeless and/or being threatened with homelessness between January 2018
and April 2022.

As part of this request, I would like the information to be broken down
into the following:

(i) The number of individuals making a homeless application while 'legally
homeless' since 2018, broken down into sexual orientation (including
transgender), per month, per year and grand total;

(ii) The number of individuals making a homeless application 'threatened
with homelessness' since 2018, broken down into sexual orientation
(including transgender), per month, per year and grand total;

(iii) The number of individuals supported into accommodation
(temporary/emergency) since 2018, broken down into sexual orientation
(including transgender), per month, per year and grand total;

(iv) The number of individuals owed a prevention and/or relief duty since
2018, broken down into sexual orientation (including transgender), per
month, per year and grand total;

(v) The number of individuals to date, still waiting to be supported into
accommodation, broken down by sexual orientation (including transgender).

(*Individuals defined as anyone between the ages of 16-80 years-old).

Yours faithfully,

Oliver Murphy

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