FOI - Summons and Liability Order hearings
Case reference FOI2025/00337
Received 9 June 2025
Published 7 July 2025
Request
I shall be grateful if you would please let me know, for the tax year 2024/25, the total number of:
a) Summons sent out and the individual cost charged.
b) Liability orders obtained and the individual cost charged.
Would you also let me have a copy of the excel spreadsheet showing the basis for the calculations of the cost of summons and the cost of the hearing charged to each individual household.
Response
a) Summons sent out and the individual cost charged.
3643
£65.00
b) Liability orders obtained and the individual cost charged.
3055 obtained
£55.00
Please find spreadsheet attached. The attached information is the combined costs for Maidstone, Swale and Tunbridge Wells Councils. Please note, a lower amount of summonses will be issued in 2025/26 due to a change in recovery procedures.
Documents
This is Tunbridge Wells Borough Council's response to a freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) request.