Issue - meetings

Received a report from the Corporate Director of Customer Services concerning the billing , collection and recovery of the vast majority of debts that fall due to be paid to the Council for chargeable services and statutory levies such as Council Tax and Business Rates.

The Executive must receive a quarterly report of the debts written off from the Income, Collection, Rents and Benefits Service areas and this report provides a summary of the value and type of debts written off as uncollectible for Quarter 1 of 2008/09 financial year (i.e. April to June 2008).

Agreed, in order to assist the Council to achieve all of its Community Priorities and as a matter of good financial practise, to note the debt write-offs for the 1^st quarter of 2008/09 as detailed in the report and that a number of these debts be publicised in accordance with the policy agreed by Minute 69 of our meeting held on 6 November 2007.