Response A1344970
Response to request for information
Reference
A1344970
Response date
8 April 2021
Request
For all questions, we would like the responses that relate to the latest figures that you have available (please state the date period in your response) and, ideally, the preceding 12 months.
How many people/households are in arrears with:
- Council Tax
- Rent
- Other payments owed (please specify)
How much is the overdue debt to the council from:
- Individual households
- Businesses
What is the annual cost of pursuing arrears with:
- Letters
- Calls
- Legal action (internal costs)
- Legal action (external costs)
- Debt Collectors / Bailiffs
- Bad debt write-off
- Other (please specify)
What is the annual spend on interventions resulting from evictions and repossessions?
- Emergency housing
- Emergency grants
- Other (please specify)
Has the Council measured the relationship between evictions & repossessions and increased costs (if so please provide whatever data is available) for:
- The criminal justice system
- The health service
- Social Care
- Mental Health
- Other (please specify)
How many evictions for debt have been initiated by the Council?
Does the Council seek custodial sentences for non-payment of debts?
Which department at the Council is concerned with supporting the financial wellbeing of residents?
- Department name
- Department email
- Named contact (if available)
Response
How many people/households are in arrears with:
- Council Tax - 3,251
- Rent - Not applicable (no housing stock)
- Other payments owed (please specify)
How much is the overdue debt to the council from:
- Individual households
- Businesses
- Unable to split information.
What is the annual cost of pursuing arrears with:
- Letters
- Calls
- Legal action (internal costs)
- Legal action (external costs)
- Debt Collectors / Bailiffs
- Bad debt write-off
- Other (please specify)
- Information not held.
What is the annual spend on interventions resulting from evictions and repossessions?
- Emergency housing
- Emergency grants
- Other (please specify)
- Not applicable (no housing stock)
Has the Council measured the relationship between evictions & repossessions and increased costs (if so please provide whatever data is available) for:
- The criminal justice system
- The health service
- Social Care
- Mental Health
- Other (please specify)
- Not applicable (no housing stock)
How many evictions for debt have been initiated by the Council?
Not applicable (no housing stock)
Does the Council seek custodial sentences for non-payment of debts?
Each case is determined on an individual basis.
Which department at the Council is concerned with supporting the financial wellbeing of residents?
- Department name
- Department email
- Named contact (if available)
Not applicable.