FOI Request - Social Housing Waiting Lists and Immigration Status Data
Request 101003788256
I am writing to request the following information under FOI:
1. For the calendar years 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 to date please provide the following data related to individuals on your council’s social housing waiting list:
a) Total number of individuals on the waiting list for social housing at the end of each calendar year (2022, 2023, 2024). Please specify the total number on the waiting list at December 31st of each year.
b) A breakdown of these individuals by immigration/residency status at the time of their application for housing, specifically categorised as:
i) British citizen
ii) EU national with settled status (EUSS)
iii) EU national with pre-settled status (EUSS)
iv) Non-EU national with Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR)
v) Refugee status
vi) Humanitarian Protection / Discretionary Leave
vii) Other (please specify if applicable)
Please confirm whether you collect nationality or residency data for those on the waiting list and, if so, provide a summary of the relevant data. If the data is not held, please explain the reasons for this.
Response 10-06-2025
1.a) The numbers below are the number of applications by category
| 31/12/2022 | 31/12/2023 | 31/12/2024 | 20/05/2025 | |
| Rehousing List | No. Applications | No. Applications | No. Applications | No. Applications |
| 1. Homeless List | 104 | 105 | 120 | 122 |
| 2. Waiting List | 2083 | 2435 | 2773 | 2359 |
| 3. Transfer List | 528 | 620 | 672 | 538 |
| Total: | 2715 | 3160 | 3565 | 3019 |
In addition, with the exception of homeless households who are normally rehoused in date order, we operate a needs based allocations policy. The total number of points on the application determines the position on the housing list at any given time and we do not award any points associated with length of time spent on the list. An applicant’s circumstances may worsen or improve during the life of their housing application, and this means their total number of points may be reassessed and their position can change frequently. Our allocations policy is available at www.moray.gov.uk/downloads/file125428.pdf.
b) Not held. We gather data on disability, ethnicity, religion/belief and sex. We do not currently collect nationality or residency data for those on the waiting list. This is something we make seek to do in the future. Information that is not held falls under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information not held.