Council Tax and Non-domestic Rates: Dorset

(asked on 11th January 2017) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the level of (a) council tax arrears and (b) non-domestic rate arrears was on 31 March 2016 in (i) Bournemouth Borough Council, (ii) Christchurch Borough Council, (iii) Poole and (iv) East Dorset District Council.


Answered by
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Marcus Jones
This question was answered on 17th January 2017

The figures are in the table below.

Council tax arrears £000

Non-domestic rate arrears £000

Bournemouth Borough Council

12,363

3,693

Christchurch Borough Council

1,594

554

Poole Borough Council

4,021

1,119

East Dorset District Council

2,019

709

Please note that this is only the second time we have collected non-domestic rate arrears data so they must be regarded as experimental data and could be revised in subsequent data collections.

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