FOI 46-24: Information regarding details of papers and research relating to housing since the year 2000

Information Standards Freedom of Information Response

11 November 2024

Our ref:  FoI 46-24

 

Freedom of Information Act 2000

I am writing to confirm that the Northern Ireland Assembly Commission (Assembly Commission) has processed your request dated 21 October 2024 in line with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). In your request, you asked:

“Please provide a copy of all papers and research relating to the following since the year 2000 (inclusive):

    1. poverty, ill health & housing
    2. poor housing and mortality
    3. slum housing / regeneration of old housing
    4. standards in the provision of social housing
    5. housing and human rights”

 

Our response

The Assembly holds information in relation to your request. This information is exempt under section 21 of the FOIA since it is reasonably accessible to you otherwise than under section 1 of the FOIA.

In order to provide advice and assistance under section 16 of the FOIA, I have also included a link to our website, which publishes a large number of Assembly research publications dating back to 2007. These publications cover a variety of topics of interest to Members, committees of the Assembly and the public.

Members of the Assembly may have asked Assembly Questions of Ministers about the subjects you have raised, and may have received answers that refer to this information. All Assembly questions, and the answers received, are published on the Assembly’s website in a searchable database. Questions and answers can be searched here.

 

Further Information

You have the right to request an internal review of this decision by the Assembly Commission.  If you wish to request such a review, please write to me at the above address.  If, after that review, you are dissatisfied with the way in which the Assembly Commission has handled your request for information, you may complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) at Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.

Your request for information and our response may be published in the disclosure log maintained by the Assembly Commission under a publication scheme agreed with the ICO. The request and our response will be anonymised. 

Yours sincerely

INFORMATION STANDARDS