FOI request (FOIR-131990877)

1) How many court summons and liability orders have been issued by your council for unpaid council tax in the year

a) 2016

b) 2017

c) 2018

d) 2019 (so far)?

If your council is covering several councils/districts, please answer for all of them.

2) How many of these were successful in

a) 2016

b) 2017

c) 2018

d) 2019?

3) How many summons and liability orders were issued for late council tax payments of

a) under £50

aa) in 2016

bb) in 2017

cc) in 2018

dd) in 2019

b) under £30

aa)  in 2016

bb) in 2017

cc) in 2018

dd) in 2019?

c) under £10

aa)  in 2016

bb) in 2017

cc) in 2018

dd) in 2019?

4) What was the overall cost in £ to your council for all unsuccessful summons and liability orders made in

a) 2016

b) 2017

c) 2018

d) 2019 (so far)?

Note, do not include working hours/resources etc in these costs, by costs I refer solely to fees directly arising from the use of the public courts system.

If your council is covering several councils/districts, please answer for all of them.

Q1 - 

2016 - Summons - 1,861, Liability Orders - 1,187

2017 - Summons - 1,925, Liability Orders - 1,256

2018 - Summons - 3,280, Liability Orders - 2,394

2019 - Summons - 500, No Liability Orders as yet

Q2 - Notice of Refusal, please see below

Q3 - The answer to whole of 3 is none as we don't Summons under £100.00

Q4 - Notice of Refusal, please see below

NOTICE OF REFUSAL

The information requested in respect of Q2 & 4 would require us to manually check 4837accounts, this would far exceed the time limit set out by the Information Commissioner therefore under S12 of the Freedom of information Act 2000 provides an exemption from the obligation to comply with a request for information if the estimated costs of complying with that request would exceed the prescribed appropriate limit.

We estimate that the costs of complying with your request would exceed the appropriate limit by a significant amount.

For this reason we feel unable to comply with this request.