Issue - meetings

To consider irrecoverable debts to be written off.

(Report attached)

RESOLVED that

the debts totalling £87,773.62 (£40,557.07 General Fund; £47,218.55 Housing Revenue Account), detailed in Appendix 1 of the report be written off as irrecoverable.

(During consideration of this item, Members discussed matters that necessitated the disclosure of exempt information.  It was therefore agreed to move to exclude the press and public prior to any debate on the grounds that it included information relating to individuals; the identity of individuals; and the financial or business affairs of particular persons (including the authority holding that information.)

(There is nothing exempt, however, in this record of the proceedings.)

The Committee received a report which sought approval to write off 29 cases of irrecoverable debt amounting to £87,773.62.

Officers reported that all appropriate debt recovery action had been attempted to recover the debts and that no further action could be taken to enforce payments.

Members were asked to note that any debt that had been written off could be retrieved and pursued if it came to the Council’s attention that the debtor had the means to pay the debt.

RESOLVED that

the debts totalling £87,773.62 (£40,557.07 General Fund; £47,218.55 Housing Revenue Account), detailed in Appendix 1 of the report be written off as irrecoverable.

(During consideration of this item, Members discussed matters that necessitated the disclosure of exempt information.  It was therefore agreed to move to exclude the press and public prior to any debate on the grounds that it included information relating to individuals; the identity of individuals; and the financial or business affairs of particular persons (including the authority holding that information.)

(There is nothing exempt, however, in this record of the proceedings.)