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Freedom of Information Request

Internal housing fraud

Received: 2 December 2025

I am a journalist at Inside Housing, and I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from your authority, along with all other London boroughs. Please may you provide me with:1. How many allegations of fraud relating to the allocation of social housing the council has received in the last five years?2. How many of these allegations resulted in internal investigations?3. How many investigations are still live and how many have concluded?4. What were the outcomes of these investigations internally (please state if someone was dismissed from their role, if they resigned)?5. How many of these passing information onto the police?6. How many live investigations with the police do you currently have underway relating to housing allocation fraud?7. How many prosecutions have been carried out in the past five years?

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