FOI request (FOI212386)

FOI Right to Buy Fraud

Requested Wed 12 April 2017
Responded  Wed 12 April 2017

If you or the organisation that manages your council housing have a fraud team that investigates fraudulent right to buy applications.

The number of right to buy applications you or the organisation that manages your council housing had in financial years 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17. The number fraudulent right to buy applications that you or the organisation that manages your council housing prevented  in financial years 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17.

The estimated cash amount that was saved by preventing fraudulent right to buy applications in 2014/15, 2015/16 and 2016/17.

Response

Hastings Borough Council does not own any Council Housing. The Council's housing stock was transferred to 1066 Housing Association in 1996 (now Amicus Horizon) as part of a Large Scale Voluntary Transfer (LSVT).