Homelessness legislation - London Borough of Hillingdon

• your immigration status
• your children
• any medical problems you may have, and
• your personal circumstances, such as
income and savings
We will then carry out further enquiries
to confirm what you have told us. We have
to do this by law. We also need to make
sure that we deal with only genuine
applications.
We also need information about any
special needs, so we can take them into
consideration if we offer you any
temporary accommodation.
Will you keep the information
I give confidential?
Yes. Only staff involved in your homeless
and housing register application will have
access to our files or computer records.
Your computer records are also protected
by the Data Protection Act 1998. This sets
out what we can and cannot do with our
computerised records.
However, we will ask you for your permission
to contact people such as doctors, building
societies, banks and other local authorities
so that we are able to confirm the information
you have given us. We will not give these
people your information.
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