The Islington Gazette report:

The town hall called in bailiffs on debt-ridden residents and businesses more than more than 14,000 times last year.

Figures from a Freedom of Information request seen by the Gazette show more than 11,500 people and around 2,500 businesses were referred to debt collection agencies by Islington Council in the financial year 2012/13 – up 13 per cent on the previous year.

The numbers, relating to council tax and business rate debts, equate to around one out of every eight households in the borough – and one in four companies.

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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.