FOI request (FOIR-700283668)

Social housing registers

Requested Thu 27 March 2025
Responded Thu 24 April 2025

This request is for councils that operate (or hold data for) a social housing register, regardless of whether or not they own any council housing.

My questions are:

1. The average time the households in the highest priority band on the council’s social housing register have been in that specific priority band for (thus excluding any time they may have previously spent in other bands).

2. The average time the households in the second-highest priority band on the council’s social housing register have been in that specific priority band for (thus excluding any time they may have previously spent in other bands).

3. Among households in the highest priority band who were rehoused in calendar year 2024 (and thus left the social housing register), the average time they had been in the highest priority band for at the time they were rehoused.

4. Among households in the second-highest priority band who were rehoused in calendar year 2024 (and thus left the social housing register), the average time they had been in the second-highest priority band for at the time they were rehoused.

If the information for questions 3 and 4 is not available by calendar year, please provide it for the most recent financial year for which the information is held (and state the financial year being used).

Response

1. Refused

2. Refused

NOTICE OF REFUSAL

The information requested in respect of questions 1 and 2 would require us to manually check each customer record. This would far exceed the time limit set out by the Information Commissioner. S12 of the Freedom of information Act 2000 provides an exemption from the obligation to comply with a request for information if the estimated costs of complying with that request would exceed the prescribed appropriate limit.

We estimate that the costs of complying with your request would exceed the appropriate limit by a significant amount.

For this reason we feel unable to comply with this part of your request.

3. Please see the attached document containing the requested information.

4. Please see the attached document containing the requested information.

Attachments

• FOIR-700283668_FOIR-700283668_1-FOIR-700283668_-_information.xlsx