Perth and Kinross Council: Housing and Homelessness

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Dear Perth and Kinross 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 - Generic Email Account, Perth and Kinross Council

Dear Mr Gomes

 

Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act  2002

Request for Information – Housing and Homelessness

 

I acknowledge receipt of your request for information dated 18 January
2014.

 

I understand that the information you seek is:-

 

1. How many people are on the Council Housing  waiting list at present ? -
please specify the age group, gender and  ethnicity.

 

2. How many people  have applied for one bedroom, two bedroom, three
bedroom, four bedroom, five bedroom  in 2012 and 2013?

 

3. How many people the Council have accommodated, following their
statutory duty under the Housing Act, who have declared themselves as
homeless and satisfied the homelessness assessment process. Please give
yearly figure for 2012 and 2013 and specify their gender, age group and if
possible ethnic identity.

 

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

 

5.What is the current council policy to address homelessness and how the
council is allocating the budget for that.

 

6.The total number of council houses, the type of house, number and area
and how many of these are currently empty.

 

7.How much the council had spent in 2012 and 2013 detailed yearly to build
new council houses/flats.

 

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 is the homelessness strategy of the Council. 

 

10. Under Part VII of the Housing Act 1996 (as amended by the Homelessness
Act 2002)  the Council has certain responsibilities towards people who are
homeless or threatened with homelessness. Would you please provide number,
age, gender of those you have provided this service to following the
specific law.

 

11.How long does it take to process a housing benefit claim. How many
housing benefit claims has been processed by the council in 2012 and 2013
detailed yearly.

 

12. How much the council has spent to pay employees who are working on
homeless issues. Please give yearly details for 2012 and 2013.

 

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

 

14.Did the council appoint any third party to find out or tackle benefit
fraud. If yes, who are the company and how much has the council paid them
for this service.

 

I am currently dealing with your request and will issue my response no
later than Monday 17 February 2014 which is 20 working days as permitted
in terms of section 10(1) of the above legislation.

 

I have reworded quite a bit of your request and if you do not agree with
my interpretation of your request you should contact me immediately.

 

Please use the reference Number ATI 2014 01 20 002 in any future
correspondence relating to this request.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

Claire Wardlaw                                   

Freedom of Information Officer

Chief Executive's Service

Perth & Kinross Council

Tel: 01738 477935

Fax: 01738 477939

 

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FOI - Generic Email Account, Perth and Kinross Council

Dear Mr Gomes

 

I have been asked for the following clarification in relation to your
request:

 

10. Under Part VII of the Housing Act 1996 (as amended by the Homelessness
Act 2002)  the Council has certain responsibilities towards people who are
homeless or threatened with homelessness. Would you please provide number,
age, gender of those you have provided this service to following the
specific law.

 

“…..question 10 does not relate to Scottish law and there are no set
timescales from when they are looking for the data.”

 

Please advise any equivalent piece of Scots legislation and timescale for
information.

 

Please note this part of your request will be put on hold until we receive
clarification.

 

Thanks

Claire.

 

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Dear FOI - Generic Email Account,

As described in Housing (Scotland) Act 2010 the Council has certain responsibilities towards people who are
homeless or threatened with homelessness. Would you please provide number,age, gender of those you have provided this service to following the
specific law. Please consider the year 2012 and 2013.

Yours sincerely,

William Gomes

FOI - Generic Email Account, Perth and Kinross Council

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Dear Mr Gomes

 

Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002

Request for Information – Housing and Homelessness

 

I refer to your request for information dated 18 January 2014.

 

The information you requested was:-

 

1. How many people are on the Council Housing  waiting list at present ? -
please specify the age group, gender and  ethnicity.

 

2. How many people  have applied for one bedroom, two bedroom, three
bedroom, four bedroom, five bedroom  in 2012 and 2013?

 

3. How many people the Council have accommodated, following their
statutory duty under the Housing Act, who have declared themselves as
homeless and satisfied the homelessness assessment process. Please give
yearly figure for 2012 and 2013 and specify their gender, age group and if
possible ethnic identity.

 

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

 

5.What is the current council policy to address homelessness and how the
council is allocating the budget for that.

 

6.The total number of council houses, the type of house, number and area
and how many of these are currently empty.

 

7.How much the council had spent in 2012 and 2013 detailed yearly to build
new council houses/flats.

 

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 is the homelessness strategy of the Council. 

 

10. Under Part VII of the Housing Act 1996 (as amended by the Homelessness
Act 2002)  the Council has certain responsibilities towards people who are
homeless or threatened with homelessness. Would you please provide number,
age, gender of those you have provided this service to following the
specific law.

 

11.How long does it take to process a housing benefit claim. How many
housing benefit claims has been processed by the council in 2012 and 2013
detailed yearly.

 

12. How much the council has spent to pay employees who are working on
homeless issues. Please give yearly details for 2012 and 2013.

 

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

 

14.Did the council appoint any third party to find out or tackle benefit
fraud. If yes, who are the company and how much has the council paid them
for this service.

 

Please find attached the information requested.

 

Please note that figures have been withheld where they relate to less than
5 as individuals may be identified from the statistics provided. 
Accordingly, an exemption in terms of Section 38(1)(b) and Section 38
(2)(a)(i) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 has been
applied in respect of the information withheld.

The information is personal information as defined by Section 1(1) of the
Data Protection Act 1998.

The individuals concerned have not given their consent to the information
being disclosed to the person making the request.

Disclosure of the information, and any other information which is likely
to come into the possession of the person making the request; would lead
to disclosing personal information relating to another individual who can
be identified from that information. The release of this personal
information would contravene data protection principles.

Specifically the information is exempt under Sections 38(1)(b) with
reference to Section 38(2)(a)(i) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland)
Act 2002, release of  information that would breach data protection
principles.

 The principles breached would be:-

Principle 1, fairly and lawfully processed: Release of the information
would breach this principle as individuals had no expectation or
understanding that this personal information would be released to the
public.

Principle 2, processed for limited purposes: Release of the information
would breach this principle as the purpose of obtaining and recording the
personal information was not to release the information to the public.

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Yours sincerely

 

 

 

Claire Wardlaw                                   

Freedom of Information Officer

Chief Executive's Service

Perth & Kinross Council

Tel: 01738 477935

Fax: 01738 477939

 

Securing the future... - Improving services - Enhancing quality of
life - Making best use of public resources.

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If you are not an intended recipient, you must not disclose, copy,
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Perth & Kinross Council, Live Active Leisure Limited and
TACTRAN do not warrant that this email or any attachments are
virus-free and does not accept any liability for any loss or damage
resulting from any virus infection. Perth & Kinross Council may
monitor or examine any emails received by its email system.

The information contained in this email may not be the views of
Perth & Kinross Council, Live Active Leisure Limited or TACTRAN.
It is possible for email to be falsified and the sender cannot be
held responsible for the integrity of the information contained in it.

Requests to Perth & Kinross Council under the Freedom of
Information (Scotland) Act should be directed to the Freedom of
Information Team - email: [Perth and Kinross Council request email]

General enquiries to Perth & Kinross Council should be made to
[email address] or 01738 475000.

General enquiries to Live Active Leisure Limited should be made
to
[email address] or 01738 454654.

General enquiries to TACTRAN should be made to
[email address] or 01738 475775.

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Claire Wardlaw                                   

Freedom of Information Officer

Chief Executive's Service

Perth & Kinross Council

Tel: 01738 477935

Fax: 01738 477939

 

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life - Making best use of public resources.

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or distribute its contents or use them in any way: please advise
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resulting from any virus infection. Perth & Kinross Council may
monitor or examine any emails received by its email system.

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Perth & Kinross Council, Live Active Leisure Limited or TACTRAN.
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held responsible for the integrity of the information contained in it.

Requests to Perth & Kinross Council under the Freedom of
Information (Scotland) Act should be directed to the Freedom of
Information Team - email: [Perth and Kinross Council request email]

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[email address] or 01738 475000.

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to
[email address] or 01738 454654.

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[email address] or 01738 475775.

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