FOI Request - Councillors and Council Tax Arrears

Request 101002146338

I'd like to know the following:

1. How many unpaid council tax reminders were sent to councillors elected in your authority between 2015/16 and 2017/18? Please break down by financial year?

2. How many councillors were summonsed to court or given summary warrants in the same period? Again, please break down by financial year.

3a. How many reminders were issued to the councillors named? Please break down by year.

3b. For each instance, please provide the name of each councillor, the party they represent or represented at the time and the amount of council tax owed according to sums requested in the letter.  Please also provide the amount of council tax that remains outstanding.

3c. Please also state for each councillor, whether they were barred from voting on the council's budget as a result of their council tax arrears and whether any summons received resulted in a court hearing going ahead.

I'd be grateful if you could provide the information for questions 1 and 2 as totals for your authority and present the rest of the information within a spreadsheet with the following columns:

Financial Year - Authority Name - Councillor Name - Party - No of Reminders - No of Summons - Amount Owed According to Reminders - Court Hearing Y/N - Outcome of Hearing - Banned from Voting Y/N - Current Sum Outstanding

Response 09-05-2019

1. 2015 - One 1st Reminder  Notice ; 2016 - One Final Notice ; 2017 - One 1st Reminder 

2. Nil

3a.   2015 - One 1st Reminder  Notice ; 2016 - One Final Notice ; 2017 - One 1st Reminder. 

3b. 2015 - £118.37 ; 2016 - £909.35 ; 2017 - £455.29. Amounts still outstanding - 2015 - nil ; 2016 - £1000.29 ; 2017 - nil. 

Names and party represented are exempt under section 38(1)(b) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002; personal information. 

3c. Nil