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I am making this request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. This request follows an earlier HMO licence fee disclosure: WBCIR:10212 (13 July 2018).
The earlier material disclosed the fee amounts, but not the recorded basis on which those fee levels were calculated or approved. Please provide the following recorded information:
1. The latest held fee calculation, costing sheet, spreadsheet, or methodology document used to set or support the HMO licence fee(s) in force for 2018/19.
2. The committee report, delegated decision record, approval note, or equivalent record approving the HMO licence fee(s) in force for 2018/19.
3. If the 2018/19 fee was not newly calculated or approved that year, please provide the equivalent records for the most recent earlier decision or calculation that was still being relied on for the 2018/19 fee.
I am not asking for personal data about landlords, tenants, complainants or officers below senior/decision-making level. I am also not asking for routine correspondence, duplicate copies, or published fee tables unless those documents contain the calculation or approval basis. To assist your search and minimise burden, I suggest searching records held by the private sector housing, housing standards, licensing, environmental health, finance, legal/governance, and committee services teams using the following terms: WBCIR:10212; HMO Licence NEW; assisted application; renewal; 2017/18; 2018/19.
Please provide spreadsheets in Excel or CSV format where held, and other documents as electronic copies.
If any part of this request would exceed the cost limit or is otherwise too broad, please treat this message as a request for advice and assistance and let me know how it could be refined.