Issue - meetings

Members are requested to consider the action taken by Officers with respect to the write off of debts during the first quarter of 2011/12 and to note the profile of outstanding debt.

(Report attached)

Following a previous Executive Committee decision to amend the manner in which the Council authorised the write-off of debts, Members received the first monitoring report detailing those debts written off during the first quarter of 2011/12 and the profile of the outstanding debt.

Councillor Derek Taylor was invited to meet with Officers to discuss the action that was taken by the Council to manage bad debt and Officers undertook to provide Councillor Carole Gandy with further detail on the liquidation / winding up write-offs for non-domestic rates.

RESOLVED that

the contents of the report be noted.