The Council has published its latest list of Business Rate creditors.
Amongst those that have overpaid their Business Rate liability, is the City of York Council!
It is owed £15,000 for premises at Kings Court that it has vacated.
The full list can be downloaded by clicking here .
The Council has published a list of the makes of car that have attracted fines for parking outside allotted bays.
The list covers the last 5 years.
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Top of the list are Ford owners, followed by Vauxhall and Volkeswagon.
In 2012/13 Mercedes tied with Volkswagon for third place
NB. At the end of 2012, the most common car in Great Britain was the Ford Focus (1.4 million) followed by the Ford Fiesta (1.3 million), a situation unchanged on the year before.
In total, Ford accounted for 15 per cent of all cars and Vauxhall for 12 per cent.
The top five marques (Ford, Vauxhall, Volkswagen, Peugeot and Renault) accounted for 48 per cent of all licensed cars in Great Britain.
The next ten (Toyota, BMW, Nissan, Citroen, Honda, Mercedes, Audi, Fiat, Rover and Volvo) take the total to over 81 per cent.
There were over 1 million cars licensed from each of the top ten marques (Ford to Honda).
The Council’s expenditure on discretionary housing payments has been below expected levels so far this year.
In York, the Council budgeted for payments of up to £286,409 for the current financial year.
So far only a little over £36,000 had been paid out to 209 applicants.
69 applicants were found not to qualify for the payments.
The figures – obtained in response to a Freedom of Information request – are at odds with the dire “gloom and doom” warnings issued by Labour Councillors to the media earlier in the summer.
Details of the York Councils housing benefits policy, together with an application form for DHP, can be read by clicking here
NB. Each local council is given a pot of money each year to help people who qualify for housing benefit (or similar help under universal credit) but are having trouble:
• paying their rent or
• finding enough money to pay for the start-up costs of a tenancy.
When the money for the year runs out, no more payments can be made.
The government has increased the amount of money available to help some people to adjust to cuts to benefits in recent years.
The council decides who should be given the payments, how much and how often they are paid. Discretionary housing payments (DHP) may be paid weekly or can be a lump sum. They can also be backdated.
