Housing fraud

I am writing to respond to your request for information received by email on Wednesday 23rd October 2019 which has been dealt with under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOI).

Your request has been given the unique Information Request No. NPH1022-1461/19. Please quote this reference on all correspondence relating to this request.

You have requested the following information.  Our response is shown in bold.

Could you PLEASE supply the following information for year to date 2019/2020?

Number of times NPH have used powers under the Prevention of Social Housing Fraud (Power to Require Information, England) Regulations 2014 or similar powers. 1
Fraud cases opened and investigated. 113 referrals recieved

Period of interest as at 23 October 2019

The disclosure to you of the enclosed information does not give you a right to reproduce or publish such information without the express permission of Northampton Borough Council or any other owners of the copyright therein.  To do so you will need a licence under the ‘Reuse of Public Sector Information Regulations 2015’.

If you consider NPH has not provided the information you have requested, you have the right to challenge that decision in respect of your information request within 6 months.

Please write to:

Information Access Challenges

Northampton Partnership Homes

The Guildhall

St Giles Square

Northampton

NN1 1DE

Otherwise please email: information@nph.org.uk.  Emails to this address will be automatically acknowledged.

If your challenge is not resolved to your complete satisfaction, you will then have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner.

If you feel your request has been handled unfairly you should, in the first instance, complain using NPH’s Customer Feedback form and address it to the department you have been dealing with. NPH’s Complaints procedure (a full copy of which is available by telephoning or writing to NPH’s Data Management Officer) will then be used to try and resolve your complaint.

 

Yours sincerely,

Santina Chambers

Data Management Officer

Northampton Partnership Homes 

01604 838794 | 0300 330 7003

www.northamptonpartnershiphomes.org.uk