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Dept for Constitutional Affairs

Answer

Malcolm Bruce: To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs if he will list the bailiff firms and enforcement agencies each magistrates court uses; and what fees and charges agreement each court has in place with the relevant firms. [166805] Mr. Leslie:: Responsibility for the employment of bailiffs and other enforcement agencies in the magistrates court system lies with individual Magistrates Court Committees (MCC), of which there are 42 in England and Wales. A list of the bailiff firms or other enforcement agencies used in each MCC area is set out in the following table. Fees and charges for the employment of bailiffs and enforcement agencies is a matter for each individual MCC and is therefore commercial in confidence. Bailiff or enforcement agencies used _________________________________________________________________________________________________. MCC name Name Avon and Somerset Drakes Group Ltd. Police Police Bedfordshire Drakes Group Ltd. Cambridgeshire Drakes Group Ltd. Cheshire IPL International Ltd. Cleveland AS Gent and Associates Equita Ltd. Cumbria Police Derbyshire MA Julious and Co XMS Warrants Loss Control Solutions Ltd. Devon and Cornwall Churchill DC Ltd. Drakes Group Ltd. Police Dorset CCS Enforcement Services Ltd. Durham Trans National Corporation (TNC) Plc Dyfed Powys Menai Collect Ltd. Essex Police Gloucestershire Drakes Group Ltd Trans National Corporation (TNC) Plc Police GLMCA CCS Enforcement Services Ltd. Drakes Group Ltd. Equita Greater Manchester National Bailiff Services Equita Ltd. AS Gent and Associated Gwent Swift Credit Services Ltd. Hampshire and IOW CCS Enforcement Services Ltd. Hertfordshire Drakes Group Ltd. Humberside Jacobs Wigglesworth and Co (Northern) Ltd. Kent Trans National Corporation (TNC) plc Lancashire Birchalls Ltd. Leicestershire -- Lincolnshire Drakes Group Ltd. Loss Control Solutions Police Merseyside IPL International Ltd. Howard Roberts Ltd. Reliance Security Group Norfolk Drakes Group Ltd. North Wales Menai Collect Ltd. North West Commercial Services North Yorkshire Phillips Collection Services Northamptonshire Rossendales Ltd. Northumbria Regional Collection Services Nottinghamshire Bristow and Sutor Police South Wales Swift Credit Services Ltd. South Yorkshire MA Julious and Co Rossendales Ltd. Equita Ltd. Staffordshire Bristow and Sutor CCS Enforcement Services Ltd. Suffolk Drakes Group Ltd. Surrey Drakes Group Ltd. Chandlers Ltd. Police Sussex Chandlers Ltd. Police Thames Valley Equita Ltd. Drakes Group Ltd. Warwickshire Professional Recovery Services Ltd. West Mercia Bristow and Sutor Loss Control Solutions Ltd. West Midlands CCS Enforcement Services Ltd. Equita Ltd. West Yorkshire AS Gent and Associates IPL International Ltd. Police Wiltshire Drakes Group Ltd. _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

166805; 420 c791-3W

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Debts Debt collection Fees and charges Magistrates' courts

Link

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