Rented dwelling licences

​​​​​Request 726982377

1

How many housing units have a Renting Dwellings Licence.

2

Please give a breakdown of the figures showing the number of landlords and the total number of dwellings currently licensed for 

Landlords registering one dwelling

Landlords registering two dwellings

Landlords registering three to five dwellings

Landlords registering six to 10 dwellings

Landlord registering 11 - 50 dwellings

Landlords registering 51 -100 dwellings

Landlords registering 101 - 500 dwellings

Landlords registering 501 - 1000 dwellings

Landlords registering over 1,000 dwellings

3

Please identify how many of the landlords and the number of dwellings licensed in each category are social landlords.

Response

1

18,183 housing units have a Rented Dwellings Licence.

2 and 3

The Scheduled Public Authority does not hold the requested breakdowns regarding dwellings and landlords in an extractable format. 

To respond to this request would require extraction and manipulation of data to produce new information.  A Scheduled Public Authority is not required to manipulate and create new data sets; consequently, Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

Article applied

Article 3 - Meaning of “information held by a public authority”

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a)     it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b)     it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.​​​

Internal Review Request

The response states -

The Scheduled Public Authority does not hold the requested breakdowns regarding dwellings and landlords in an extractable format.

To respond to this request would require extraction and manipulation of data to produce new information.

The data is essential for the government to be able to do its job in an efficient and transparent way.

There is no need to extract and manipulate data. The data is in a database and to answer the request simply requires using filters which is a basic function. If the authority does not have the expertise Statistics Jersey can easily help.

Internal Review Response

This internal review has been conducted by an official of appropriate seniority who has not been involved in the original decision. As part of their review, they will be expected to understand the reasons behind the original response, impartially determine whether the response should be revised, and how so, considering the request and the information held, any relevant exemptions, or other relevant matters under the Law.  

The Internal Review Panel was asked to review the original response and confirm the following:  

Does the FOI request relate to a body to which the Law applies, or information held by a body covered by the Law?  

If the answer is no, all the other questions are not applicable.      

Further questions if above is a yes:   

i. Was the right information searched for and reviewed? 

ii. Was the information supplied appropriately?

iii. Was information appropriately withheld in accordance with the articles applied and were the public interest test/ prejudice test properly applied?

Following discussion, it was agreed by the Panel that the decision was upheld.