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Dept for Constitutional Affairs

Answer

Malcolm Bruce: To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs how many (a) attachment of earnings, (b) charging orders, (c) third party debt orders, (d) judgment summons and (e) warrants of execution were issued in each year since 1997; what the total debt was that each enforcement method was to recover; and what the success rates in terms of debt recovery were for each enforcement method. [166803] Mr. Leslie: Figures relating to the first part of the question are provided in the following table. Information relating to the amount and success rates of the enforcement methods is not available centrally and can be provided only at disproportionate cost. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Attachment of Charging orders Third party debt Judgement summons Warrants of earnings orders orders issued execution issued 1997 65,669 11,602 4,048 5,234 622,408 1998 43,440 10,852 3,646 5,688 543,848 1999 34,399 9,820 3,357 5,709 538,337 2000 35,545 10,636 3,174 5,687 470,270 2001 42,011 15,900 4,139 3,640 394,611 2002 39,855 21,447 5,499 139 372,505 2003 40,384 25,054 6,019 116 355,476 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

166803; 420 c520W

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Debts Defaulters Debt collection Enforcement Judgements Repayments

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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