Issue - meetings

To consider the action taken by officers with respect to the write off of debts during the first nine months of 2013/14 and to note the profile and/or level of outstanding debt.

(Report attached)

The Committee considered a report which detailed the action taken by Officers with respect to the write off of debts during the first none months of 2013/14 and which set out the profile and levels of outstanding debt.

Officers advised that much of the information contained within the report could only usefully be reported on an annual basis as in-year reporting only served to provide a misleading impression of the levels of outstanding debt. To this end it was proposed that the Executive Committee move to annual rather than quarterly reporting of this information henceforward.

RESOLVED that

1)        the contents of the report be noted; and

2)        an amendment be made to the Write Off Policy to allow for annual reporting of the write offs rather than quarterly.