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Dear Leeds City Council,

I write to request a register of licensed HMO's as allowed for by the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

I would welcome the register to contain contact details for us to be able to correspond with the licensees.

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Yours faithfully,

Tari Manyewe
Director
Mass Letting

DPFOI, Leeds City Council

Thank you for contacting the Leeds City Council Information Management &
Governance Requests team. We confirm that we have received your
correspondence. 

Unfortunately at the current time it is unlikely we will be unable to
provide a response to your request within either statutory or
usual timescales due to the impact of Coronavirus, COVID-19. I am sorry
for any inconvenience this may cause. We will endeavour to supply you with
the information you have requested as soon as we are able to.

 
If you have submitted a Freedom of Information or Environmental
Information Regulation request- we will respond to your request in
accordance with the appropriate legislation within 20 working days. While
you wait, you may wish to check information published by the Council on
the [1]Data Mill North to see if the information you have requested is
already available.
 
If you have submitted an access to information request or other
information rights request- we will respond to your request in accordance
with the GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. Please note in order to
process your request, we require confirmation of your identity via a
copy of one of the following forms:

o Driving Licence
o Passport
o Birth Certificate
o Council Tax bill
o Utility bill 

If we require further information from you before we are able to process
your request we will contact you directly to request this.  If you would
like more information on how Leeds City Council process these types of
requests, information is available on our [2]website

 

If you are a healthcare or social work professional, or a member of the
police force making a request for disclosure of information for the
purpose of safeguarding or the prevention, investigation, detection or
prosecution of criminal offences – we will respond to your request as soon
as possible.

 

For all other queries – we will look into your request and respond as
appropriate.

 

For information about what we do with personal data please see our
[3]privacy notice.
 
Yours sincerely
 
Information Management & Governance – Requests Team

 

 

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IMG.Requests, Leeds City Council

Good Afternoon,

Freedom of information request Ref. 291811 - Register of licensed HMO's

Thank you for your request for the above information which we received on 24/6/2020. Your request will be processed in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000, or the Environmental Information Regulations 2004.

Unfortunately at the current time it is unlikely we will be unable to provide a response to your request within statutory timescales due to the impact of Coronavirus, COVID-19. I am sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. We will endeavour to supply you with the information you have requested as soon as we are able to.

Please remember to quote reference number FOI 291811 in any future communications.

Yours sincerely,
Marta Kapica
Information Governance Assistant
Leeds City Council

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IMG.Requests, Leeds City Council

Dear Tari Manyewe

 

Freedom of Information Request (Ref: 291811)

 

I refer to the above and your request dated 24/06/2020. I have contacted
the relevant services and now provide a response to the following request.

 

I write to request a register of licensed HMO's as allowed for by the
Freedom of Information Act 2000.

 

I would welcome the register to contain contact details for us to be able
to correspond with the licensees.

 

Leeds City Council does hold a register of licensed Housing in Multiple
Occupation (HMO). However, the information is reasonably accessible to you
by other means and is therefore exempt from release under section 21 of
the Freedom of Information Act. The published information relating to
register of licensed HMO’s, can be found at the following link;

 

[1]https://datamillnorth.org/dataset/housin...

 

With respect to specific contact details.

 

Leeds City Council is likely to hold the specific contact details of the
registered licensees.  However, unfortunately I am unable to comply with
your request as we consider the information requested to be exempt under
section 40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the FOIA) together
with the condition in section 40(3)(a)(i).  This provides an absolute
exemption if disclosure of the personal information would breach any of
the data protection principles.

 

In the Information Commissioner’s view, the two main elements of personal
data are that the information must ‘relate to’ a living individual and
that person must be identifiable. Information will ‘relate to’ a person if
it is about them, linked to them, has some biographical significance for
them, is used to inform decisions affecting them, has them as its main
focus or impacts on them in any way.  It has been held by the Article 29
working party, the advisory party to the European Commission, that to
determine whether a person is identifiable, account should be taken of all
the means likely reasonably to be used either by the controller or by any
other person to identify that person.

 

It is our view that the information requested is personal information and
therefore we are required to consider whether to disclose this data would
breach any of the data protection principles.

 

To fulfil the first data protection principle, a disclosure of personal
data must be fair, lawful and meet one of the relevant fair processing
schedule conditions.  Since the information requested is personal data, a
fair processing condition in Schedule 2 must be met.  It is our view that
none of the conditions in Schedule 2 can be met and, therefore, any such
disclosure would be unfair in accordance with the requirements of the
first principle. 

 

We have considered whether it would be fair to provide information that
could identify individuals and that it would be the reasonable expectation
of the data subject that this information would not be disclosed. We
consider that the reasonable expectations of these individuals would be
that their personal information would remain private and would not be
released into the public domain.  

 

Therefore, it is the Council’s view that to disclose the information
requested would be a breach of the first principle of the Data Protection
Act.

 

I trust that this response is satisfactory. If however you are
dissatisfied with this response you have a right to appeal to an
independent officer within the council. They will re-examine your request
and assess whether we have adhered to the requirements of the act. Should
you wish to follow this course of action please address your concerns in
writing to the above address.

 

You also have a right under Section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act
to ask the Information Commissioner to decide whether we have met with our
obligations under the act.  The Commissioner has however made it clear
that she expects all applicants to exhaust internal appeals procedures
prior to making such an application. Should you wish to contact the
Commissioner’s office then you can contact the Commissioner via her
website at [2]www.ico.org.uk

 

I trust that this is self-explanatory.  If you have any queries please
contact me on 0113 3784251, or by return email.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Michelle

 

Requests Team

Information Management & Governance

Digital & Information Service

Leeds City Council 

 

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