Electrical Installation Condition Reports (EICRs) in the housing sector
Case reference FOI2026/00887
Received 28 April 2026
Published 28 May 2026
Request
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, Electrical Safety First requests the following information regarding Electrical Installation Condition Reports (EICRs):
Local Authorities:
1. Please provide information on how many homes in your jurisdiction are classified as:
A. Private Rented Sector (PRS) properties.
2. Regarding the housing stock of PRS properties, please provide the following information:
A. The number of Electrical Information Condition Reports (EICRs) carried out in privately rented homes that have been submitted to you over the last four years.
B. The number of Classification Code C1 and Classification Code C2 observations recorded within any EICR, in the last four years, per year.
C. The number of remedial works carried out on these properties as a result of the EICR outcome.
Response
Please find the answers to your queries below:
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, Electrical Safety First requests the following information regarding Electrical Installation Condition Reports (EICRs):
Local Authorities:
1. Please provide information on how many homes in your jurisdiction are classified as:
A. Private Rented Sector (PRS) properties.
We do not hold this information. The PRS database has not launched yet, awaiting further details from the Government on when this is due to be implemented (possibly late 2026), with landlords registering from 2027 and fully executed by 2028.
2. Regarding the housing stock of PRS properties, please provide the following information:
A. The number of Electrical Information Condition Reports (EICRs) carried out in privately rented homes that have been submitted to you over the last four years.
We do not hold this information due to technological limitations in our previous systems.
B. The number of Classification Code C1 and Classification Code C2 observations recorded within any EICR, in the last four years, per year.
We are unable to narrow down this information from our systems but we have very recently migrated to a new system which will classify the codes going forwards.
C. The number of remedial works carried out on these properties as a result of the EICR outcome.
Again, we are unable to narrow down this information from our systems but we have very recently migrated to a new system which will classify the codes going forwards.
Yours sincerely,
FOI Team
Guildford Borough Council
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