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Equita

Answer

Since 2011/12, £1,468,660 has been spent between Central Government bodies and Equita. The departmental breakdown is as follows:

Department	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16
	Spend	Spend	Spend	Spend	Spend
HM Revenue and Customs			£167,243	£854,917	£406,224
Department for Communities and Local Government			£279		£4,335
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills		£2,498		£4,015	£11,375
Department of Health		£10,184
Ministry of Justice					£1,752
Ministry of Defence	£2,133
Department of Energy and Climate Change			£1,649
Department for Education		£1,460
Home Office	£480
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs				£115

Since January 2011, details of central government contracts above the value of £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder. Contracts published prior to 26 February 2015 can be viewed at:

https://data.gov.uk/data/contracts-finder-archive

Those published after 26 February 2015 can be viewed at:

https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search

The Government is clear that aggressive enforcement action is not acceptable. In April 2014 reforms were introduced to deliver protections from aggressive bailiff behaviour. The reforms introduced a simple set of rules which detail, amongst other things, what goods an enforcement agent can and cannot take, how and when they can enter premises and what fees they can charge.

The Government believes the package of reforms introduced in April 2014 provided essential protection to debtors from the aggressive pursuit of their debt whilst balancing the need for effective enforcement and the rights of creditors.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

68378

Session

2016-17

Grouped for answer

Yes

Subjects

Contracts Debt collection Public sector Equita

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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