Dear Fraser,

Thank you for your request dated 20 February 2024, asking for information that we hold as follows, please see our responses below in blue:

  1. How many households living in temporary accommodation in December 2023 were ineligible/disqualified to bid for permanent housing because of rent arrears?

Customers are not ineligible/disqualified due to rent arrears but they are awarded reduced preference as per the Barnet housing allocation scheme – 105

  1. How many households identified in question 1 include at least one child under the age of 18 years old?

64

  1. How many households identified in question 1 include at least one child who is two years-old or under? 

10

  1. How many households living in temporary accommodation in December 2023 were re-banded/deprioritised for permanent housing because of rent arrears?
  2. How many households identified in question 4 include at least one child under the age of 18 years old? 
  3. How many households identified in question 4 include at least one child who is two years-old or under? 

Refusal Notice

s12 (cost of compliance exceeds appropriate limit)

The data you have requested is substantial and in order to respond to the request we would need to review 105 applications.

The information for questions 4, 5 and 6 can only be extracted by reviewing each application individually. There were 105 applications that had reduced preference due to rent arrears and to check the information for questions 4, 5 and 6 would take approximately 15 minutes per application. We would reasonably estimate it to take in excess of 26 hours to review.

We estimate that compliance with your request would exceed the appropriate time/costs limit under section 12 of the Freedom of information Act 2000. This is currently 18 hours /£450. Section 12 (1) of the FOIA does not oblige a public authority to comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the time or cost of complying with the request would exceed the appropriate limit as set out above.

 

Your Rights

If you are unhappy with the way your request for information has been handled, you can request a review by emailing Talk2Us@barnethomes.org and marking it as an appeal for the attention of the Data Controller. There is no charge for making an appeal.

After this, if you remain dissatisfied with the handling of your request or complaint, you have the right to appeal to the Information Commissioner:

Kind regards,