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Written question asked by Chris Ruane (Labour) on Tuesday, 11 July 2017, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 13 July 2017. It was answered by Lord Sharma (Conservative) on Wednesday, 19 July 2017 on behalf of the Department for Communities and Local Government.

Multiple Occupation: Licensing

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 July 2017 to Question 840, on multiple occupation: licensing, which local authorities have accessed new information from tenancy deposit protections schemes in order to identify mandatory licensable houses of multiple occupation since that data has been made available.

Answer

Measures within the Housing and Planning Act 2016 allow local housing authorities in England to access information held by the Tenancy Deposit Protection (TDP) schemes. Local Housing Authorities must only use the data:

1. For a purpose connected with the exercise of their functions under Parts 1-4 of the Housing Act 2004 in relation to any premises (in general improving housing conditions, licencing of Houses in Multiple Occupation, selective licencing of other accommodation and management orders); and

2. For the purpose of investigating whether an offence has been committed under any of those Parts in relation to any premises.

Local Housing Authorities are not required to access the information provided by the TDP schemes. It is up to individual authorities to decide whether to access and use the information or not, depending on local circumstances and other data sources available to them.

A list of local Housing Authorities in England who are known to have applied to the schemes for access to the information in the first quarter of 2017 is shown below.

Allerdale

Aylesbury Vale

Barnet

Bath and North East Somerset

Bedford

Blackburn & Darwen

Blackpool

Bolton

Boston

Brent

Bristol City of

Broadland

Broxbourne

Broxtowe

Camden

Carlisle

Central Bedfordshire

Chelmsford

Cherwell

Colchester

Cornwall

Croydon

Dacorum

Dover

Ealing

East Devon

East Hertfordshire

Eastbourne

Epping Forest

Exeter

Forest Heath

Gedling

Greenwich

Hackney

Haringey

Hastings

Hastings

Hull City

Islington

Kings Lynn & West Norfolk

Kingston upon Hull City of

Lewes

Liverpool

London Borough of Ealing

London Borough of Tower Hamlets

Luton

Manchester

Mansfield

Newcastle upon Tyne

Newham

North Lincolnshire

North Somerset

North Warwickshire

Norwich

Nottingham City

Oxford City

South Northamptonshire

Southend-on-Sea

Spelthorne

St Albans City

Stevenage

Stockport

Suffolk

Suffolk Coastal

Thanet

Tower Hamlets

Warwick

Watford

Waveney

Welwyn Garden City

Welwyn Hatfield

West Suffolk - Forest Heath

West Suffolk - St Edmundsbury

Westminster

Wigan

Woking

Wolverhampton

Wycombe

Wyre Forest District Council

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
4183
Session
2017-19
Related items
Multiple Occupation: Licensing
Wednesday, 5 July 2017
Written questions
House of Commons
Subjects
Licensing Multiple occupation Tenancy deposit schemes
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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