Have to admit I've only just seen this thread but my first reaction is ... 'Ye gods' - I would have read it all but there was a danger of falling asleep! And I've lost count of the number of times I have to enter my name - presumably they're working on the same assumption as when you had to write your address on the back of a cheque - that'd you'd put 'Duke of Westminster' on the front but '3 Railway Cuttings' on the back!!
Anomalous or what? H1 - who usually lives here? No-one, it's a holiday home - so ... if no-one's there how are they going to fill in the form?
So then we come to the wonderful wording of H5 'If there is no-one usually living here (there are only visitors staying here) answer questions H7 to H11 on page 6 and then go to the back page (page 32) to answer the Visitor questions Ah, but what if there aren't any visitors either?
And H14 - how many cars are available? Well, mine ... and my husband's but he's abroad for more than 12 months; I use my daughters' cars occasionally but they don't live here; my cousin lives 3 street away, I use her car sometimes .... shall I go on?
In a previous life I worked for the Police - the answer to questions 35, 37, and 38 is always going to be 'Enforcement of law and order and prevention and detection of crime' - it's the Police for heaven's sake.
OK, OK, so it's the statistics they're after, but it does have the smack of 'statistics are used like a drunk uses a lamp-post ... for support rather than illumination'
