Wolverhampton council is owed more than £10 million in outstanding council tax and has to save £134 million over five years, with 2,000 jobs going.

Figures released under the Freedom of Information Act show that the authority is owed funds dating back at least six years.

The council is owed £1,647,572 from before 2009, £632,557 from 2010/11, £783,426 from 2011/12, £963,033 from 2012/13, £1,807,310 from 2013/14 and £3,682,184 from 2014/15.

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Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.