Number of LGBT individuals making a homeless application between 2018-2023
Dear Fenland District Council,
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,
Daniel Laycock
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Dear Daniel Laycock
Thank you for your request for information which we received on 20/03/24
Your request has been considered under the Freedom of Information Act
2000.
Please see the response attached:
If you are unhappy with the way the authority has handled your request,
you may ask for an internal review. Please contact [1][email address] who
will arrange an internal review of your case. Under regulation 11(2), you
must contact us for a review no later than 40 working days after the date
of this email.
If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have
the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a
decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:
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address]. Please remember to quote the reference number above in any
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Yours sincerely
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