LOBO loan borrowing, restructuring or refinancing
Dear North Ayrshire Council,
I'm interested in obtaining information regarding your council's LOBO loan borrowing and if/ how this borrowing has been restructured or refinanced by either the lending bank(s) or the council.
Please provide the following information/ loan parameters below in Microsoft XL format:
1) How much of your council's LOBO loan debt has been repaid and refinanced? Please list the LOBO loans that have been refinanced by counterparty, notional amount, original maturity and date of restructuring.
2) Please disclose the break cost paid to the bank counterparty for each loan restructuring and the discount rate used in each valuation.
3) Please disclose any additional PWLB borrowing undertaken to finance LOBO loan restructuring, including the maturities and coupon rates of new PWLB loans.
4) Please disclose the name of any third-party adviser used on the restructuring.
5) Please provide original, modified, and/or restructured loan contracts, including:
a) LOBOs converted into fixed rate loans
b) LOBOs/fixed rate loans converted into PWLB loans
c) LOBOs that have not been refinanced
6) Please provide the name of the broker used for each loan restructuring, and the relevant brokerage fee paid.
7) Please confirm whether your council have applied for any “statutory overrides” or “capitalisation requests” in relation to the accounting for LOBO loans in the council's annual accounts.
Please provide the:
a) Date/year
b) Subject/scope of each override
c) Result of each formal application for a statutory override
I'd appreciate it if you could acknowledge the above requests and inform me of the latest date of which you are required to answer my request by (20 days from the date of receipt).
Thanks for your help,
Jamie Mann
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Dear Mr Mann,
Thank you for your request for information dated 13th February 2019 which
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Hi Samantha,
As originally requested, please could you share copies of the original contracts for all lobos?
Many thanks,
Jamie Mann
Dear Mr Mann,
Please accept our apologies, the Service who provided the response
misunderstood the question and they are working on getting the information
back to us. We have had to reopen this as a new case (Case Ref
101003185231 ), as you have requested over 40 working days after our
disclosure,
Kind Regards,
Samantha Alexander
FOI/EIR Co-ordinator
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Dear Jamie Mann
Thank you for your correspondence which was received by North Ayrshire
Council, requesting information.
North Ayrshire Council acknowledges receipt of your request and will
respond to you within 20 working days as required by the Freedom of
Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (please note day 1 of your request is the
first working day after receipt of your request). We will contact you if
we require any further information or clarification from you.
If your request is regarding information which is considered environmental
information the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004
(EISR) will also apply. Both EISR and FOISA provide similar rights to
access information and place requirements on the Council to consider
requests and to provide information.
The Council will now consider your request and identify any relevant
records held. Please note, should your request relate to environmental
information in terms of Section 7 of the Regulations (complex or
voluminous requests), the Council may extend the timescale to 40 working
days. We will write to you as soon as possible after receipt of your
request to advise if this is the case.
The information supplied in your request will only be accessed by North
Ayrshire Council staff and will be retained for the purposes of processing
your request for information and related purposes and for statistical and
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accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act 2018.
Yours sincerely
FOI Co-ordinator
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Dear Mr Mann,
Thank you for your request for information dated 13th May 2019 which was
received by North Ayrshire Council on 13th May 2019.
We have now completed our research for the information and the responses
to your questions are listed below.
Request
5) Please provide original, modified, and/or restructured loan contracts,
including:
a) LOBOs converted into fixed rate loans
b) LOBOs/fixed rate loans converted into PWLB loans
c) LOBOs that have not been refinanced
Response
Please see the documents attached.
Your right to seek a review.
Should you be dissatisfied with the way in which North Ayrshire Council
has dealt with your request you have the right to ask us to review it.
You should explain why you wish a review to be carried out and should be
made within 40 working days of receipt of this response. We will then
reply within 20 working days of receipt and employees not involved in your
original request will undertake the review. If you are not satisfied with
the result of the review you then have the right to make a formal
complaint to the Scottish Information Commissioner at
http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/Appeal
Any request for a review should be made in writing in the first instance
to:
FOI /EIR Manager
Data Service
Cunninghame House
Irvine
Ayrshire
KA12 8EE
Email : [email address]
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(Scotland) Act 2002 does not give the applicant or whoever receives the
information any right to re-use it in such a way that might infringe the
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its accuracy is not warranted. In particular, the Council accepts no
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Samantha Alexander
Freedom of Information Co-ordinator
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Hi Samantha,
Please can you advise whether the council holds information regarding the advisor or broker in connection with each Lobo loan? If so, please can you share this information with me?
Thanks for your help,
Jamie Mann
Dear Jamie Mann
Thank you for your correspondence which was received by North Ayrshire
Council, requesting information.
North Ayrshire Council acknowledges receipt of your request and will
respond to you within 20 working days as required by the Freedom of
Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (please note day 1 of your request is the
first working day after receipt of your request). We will contact you if
we require any further information or clarification from you.
If your request is regarding information which is considered environmental
information the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004
(EISR) will also apply. Both EISR and FOISA provide similar rights to
access information and place requirements on the Council to consider
requests and to provide information.
The Council will now consider your request and identify any relevant
records held. Please note, should your request relate to environmental
information in terms of Section 7 of the Regulations (complex or
voluminous requests), the Council may extend the timescale to 40 working
days. We will write to you as soon as possible after receipt of your
request to advise if this is the case.
The information supplied in your request will only be accessed by North
Ayrshire Council staff and will be retained for the purposes of processing
your request for information and related purposes and for statistical and
audit purposes. The information will be held by North Ayrshire Council in
accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act 2018.
Yours sincerely
FOI Co-ordinator
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Dear Mr Mann,
Thank you for your request for information dated 16th January 2020 which
was received by North Ayrshire Council on 16th January 2020.
We have now completed our research for the information and the responses
to your questions are listed below.
Please see the document attached for your request and the response.
Your right to seek a review.
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has dealt with your request you have the right to ask us to review it.
You should explain why you wish a review to be carried out and should be
made within 40 working days of receipt of this response. We will then
reply within 20 working days of receipt and employees not involved in your
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complaint to the Scottish Information Commissioner at
http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/Appeal
Any request for a review should be made in writing in the first instance
to:
FOI /EIR Manager
Cunninghame House
Irvine
Ayrshire
KA12 8EE
Email : [email address]
The supply of documents under the terms of the Freedom of Information
(Scotland) Act 2002 does not give the applicant or whoever receives the
information any right to re-use it in such a way that might infringe the
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copies, publishing or otherwise distributing the information to other
individuals and the public.
While efforts have been made to ensure the accuracy of this information,
its accuracy is not warranted. In particular, the Council accepts no
liability for onward sale or transfer of this information to any third
party and for any reliance placed on such information by you or by a third
party.
Yours sincerely
Samantha Alexander
Freedom of Information Co-ordinator
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