Issue - meetings

To consider the action taken by Officers with respect to the write off of debts during the Financial Year 2013/14 and the profile and/or level of outstanding debt.

(Report attached)

The Committee considered a report which detailed action taken by Officers with respect to the write-off of debts during the financial year 2013/14 and the profile and level of the Council’s outstanding debt.

Officers noted that the total amount of irrecoverable debt written off by Officers during the year was well within the current bad debt provision. The Committee was also requested to use its discretionary powers to write-off three debts considered irrecoverable but for which the present Write-off Policy did not provide the necessary authority for Officers so to do.

RESOLVED that

1)        the contents of the report be noted; and

2)        the debt owing in relation to the three cases of debt detailed at Appendix 1 to the report submitted be written off as irrecoverable under the Executive Committee’s discretionary powers.