Council tax rebate status 2022
Dear Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council,
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from your organisation:
1) Could you please provide a count of how many households in your council area fall into each of the following council tax bands: A, B, C & D
2) Could you please provide a count by council tax band of A, B, C & D how many of them have been repaid the council tax rebate which has been confirmed by the chancellor.
3) Could you please provide a count of how many households in your council area fall into each of the following council tax bands: A, B, C & D and pay their tax via direct debit.
4) Could you please provide a count by council tax band of A, B, C & D how many of them have which pay by direct debit have been repaid the council tax rebate which has been confirmed by the chancellor.
5) Can you please confirm what the deadline is for those houses in band A, B, C & D to have their council tax rebate returned by. Could you also provide
My preferred format for this data is excel or CSV format.
If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under the Section 16 obligations of the Act, as to how I can refine my request.
If you can identify any ways that my request could be refined I would be grateful for any further advice and assistance.
If you have any queries please don’t hesitate to contact me via email and I will be very happy to clarify what I am asking for and discuss the request.
Thank you for your time and I look forward to your response.
Yours faithfully,
Carolyn Tuson
Dear Ms Tuson
Please accept our sincere apologies for the delay in providing you with a
response to your recent freedom of information enquiry. Wirral Council
can advise as follows:
1) Could you please provide a count of how many households in your council
area fall into each of the following council tax bands: A, B, C & D? - As
at 31.8.2022 = 134,554 (includes unoccupied properties) / 128,410 eligible
properties for an £150 ENERGY REBATE payment
2) Could you please provide a count by council tax band of A, B, C & D how
many of them have been repaid the council tax rebate which has been
confirmed by the chancellor. - 107,291 AS AT 15.9.2022
3) Could you please provide a count of how many households in your council
area fall into each of the following council tax bands: A, B, C & D and
pay their tax via direct debit. - 86,588
4) Could you please provide a count by council tax band of A, B, C & D how
many of them have which pay by direct debit have been repaid the council
tax rebate which has been confirmed by the chancellor - 86,552
5) Can you please confirm what the deadline is for those houses in band A,
B, C & D to have their council tax rebate returned by. - Deadline date for
on-line application was 31.8.2022
Yours sincerely
Lynette Paterson
Principal Information Management Officer
Resources – Digital and Improvement
Wirral Council
PO Box 290
Brighton Street
Wallasey
CH27 9FQ
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