FOI Request - Landlord Registration Data
Request 101002927507
• What has been the budget of your landlord registration department, each year from 2011 to 2021?
• How many staff (in absolute numbers, and by full-time equivalent calculation) have been employed by your landlord registration department each year from 2011 to 2021?
• How many landlords and private rented properties does your department oversee, each year from 2011 to 2021?
• What types of intervention and enforcement do you do, and how many actions of each type have been done each year from 2011 to 2021?
• How do you measure how effective your landlord registration department is, and can you share this evaluation for each year, from 2011 to 2021?
• What are the rates of compliance within your local authority area, for each year from 2011 to 2021? How many landlords are in compliance with all regulations each year, and how many are not, over this period?
Response 13-12-21
•What has been the budget of your landlord registration department, each year from 2011 to 2021?
2021/22 -£26,399
2020/21 -£26,392
2019/20 -£27,167
2018/19 -£22,484
2017/18 -£23,272
2016/17 -£23,850
2015/16 -£24,802
Please note: data for years prior to 2015/16 is not held, and therefore falls under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information not held.
•How many staff (in absolute numbers, and by full-time equivalent calculation) have been employed by your landlord registration department each year from 2011 to 2021?
= In terms of Staff/staffing costs we have:- Registration - 1 admin full time and 0.5 Enforcement - 0.5 + 0.1
•How many landlords and private rented properties does your department oversee, each year from 2011 to 2021?
This information would be held by Registers of Scotland (ROS) https://www.ros.gov.uk/our-registers. This information therefore falls under Section 25 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information otherwise accessible.
•What types of intervention and enforcement do you do, and how many actions of each type have been done each year from 2011 to 2021?
When Landlords Register or renew their Registration, a “fit and proper person test” is carried out.
Copies of safety certificates are requested for all rental properties – Information on the Landlord Registration Scheme is available online at:- http://www.moray.gov.uk/moray_standard/page_127534.html
The Landlord Registration Officer actively pursues unregistered landlords.
2019 - 56
2020 - 67
2021 - 101
The Environmental Health section carries out housing conditions inspections where information is received that houses may fail the tolerable or repairing standards.
2011 - 109
2012 - 173
2013 - 220
2014 - 194
2015 - 190
2016 - 157
2017 - 115
2018 - 103
2019 - 79
2020 - 51
2021 - 51
•How do you measure how effective your landlord registration department is, and can you share this evaluation for each year, from 2011 to 2021?
Landlord Registration is a requirement in terms of Part 8 of the Antisocial Behaviour etc. (Scotland) Act 2004 implemented by the Scottish Government. Each local authority must prepare and maintain a register. Moray Council maintains the Scottish Landlord Register on the Registers of Scotland website:- https://www.ros.gov.uk/our-registers/scottish-landlord-register
The goal of the Environmental Health Landlord Registration team is to ensure that landlords are registered and where rented properties are found to be below standard, the owners carry out any necessary repairs. There are no set performance indicators to measure the effectiveness of the team.
•What are the rates of compliance within your local authority area, for each year from 2011 to 2021? How many landlords are in compliance with all regulations each year, and how many are not, over this period?
Information Not Held. This information therefore falls under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information not held.