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.
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.