Ms Joanna Morris
Information Management
Shire Hall
Warwick
CV34 4RL
Telephone 01926 418633
Email xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
Please ask for Jonathan Sheward
Our ref: 4393861
Your ref:
Date: 8 May 2019
Dear Ms Morris,
Freedom of Information Act 2000
Your request for information has been considered by Warwickshire County Council
under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
You asked us:
I'm writing to you in the hope of obtaining information relating to the number of
reminder letters and summons sent to elected councillors in your authority area
since 2015/16.
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.
Please be advised that information to answer the above questions is not held by
Warwickshire County Council.
The issuing of reminders and summonses in respect of Council Tax would be
undertaken by the local district and borough councils, as the councils responsible for the
collection of this tax.
Therefore, you will need to contact the District and Borough Councils directly for any
information that they hold in respect of these questions.
Contact details for these councils are available via their respective websites:
Warwick District Council –
http://www.warwickdc.gov.uk/info/20595/the_council_warwick_dc/667/contact_us
Stratford-upon-Avon District Council –
https://www.stratford.gov.uk/council-democracy/freedom-of-information.cfm
Rugby Borough Council –
https://www.rugby.gov.uk/info/20030/information_and_data/108/freedom_of_information
Nuneaton & Bedworth Borough Council –
https://www.nuneatonandbedworth.gov.uk/info/21004/access_to_information/93/freedo
m_of_information_act
North Warwickshire Borough Council –
http://www.northwarks.gov.uk/info/200162/data_protection_freedom_of_information_etc
/131/freedom_of_information_act-foi
I hope that the above clarifies the situation, but please do not hesitate in contacting me
if you have any queries.
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.
None of Warwickshire County Council's councillors have been barred from voting on the
county council's budget owing to Council Tax arrears
However, you will again need to contact the district and borough councils for any
information held on their respective councillors.
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the right to ask for an
internal review. Internal review requests should be submitted within 40 days of the date
of receipt of the response to your original letter and should be addressed to:
Information Management
Shire Hall
Warwick
CV34 4RL
xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have the right to
apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. The Information
Commissioner can be contacted at:
The Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire, SK9 5AF.
Phone: 0303 123 1113
Website: www.ico.org.uk
I will now close your request as of this date.
Yours sincerely
Jonathan Sheward
Information Rights Officer