Last year, Councils used court action 2.3 million times and bailiffs 1.4 million times to collect council tax debt. The bailiff fees added £200 million to people’s debts. Over 1.3 million households are estimated to have built up council tax debts because of coronavirus. When the Covid restrictions on debt collection end on 23 August, the day on which bailiffs can arrive—or debt D-day, as the coalition charities have called it— there need to be pre-action protocols in place to prevent people finding themselves on the streets.

Last year, Councils used court action 2.3 million times and bailiffs 1.4 million times to collect council tax debt. The bailiff fees added £200 million to people’s debts. Over 1.3 million households are estimated to have built up council tax debts because of coronavirus. When the Covid restrictions on debt collection end on 23 August, the day on which bailiffs can arrive—or debt D-day, as the coalition charities have called it— there need to be pre-action protocols in place to prevent people finding themselves on the streets.

Last year, Councils used Court action 2.3 million times and bailiffs 1.4 million times to collect council tax debt. The bailiff fees added £200 million to people’s debts. Over 1.3 million households are estimated to have built up council tax debts because of...

Lord David Alton

For 18 years David Alton was a Member of the House of Commons and today he is an Independent Crossbench Life Peer in the UK House of Lords.

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Lord Alton – Borders Bill – 26th June 2025.

Lord Alton made a speech on the Borders Bill urging Government to tackle the root causes of mass migration and displacement and to hit the smuggling gangs while upholding our obligation to protect the vulnerable. https://youtu.be/HLVBKjHRRpo Lord Alton of...

My analysis today for @GIS_Reports of the geopolitical role of the papacy-why Pope Leo needs to reassess the Vatican’s embrace of the CCP-which commits genocide, persecutes religion, imprisons political dissenters, uses slave labour, tramples on human rights – and why, Hong Kong’s Venerable Cardinal, Joseph Zen, warned the Conclave’s voting Cardinals to avoid the whiff of red smoke.

My analysis today for @GIS_Reports of the geopolitical role of the papacy-why Pope Leo needs to reassess the Vatican's embrace of the CCP-which commits genocide, persecutes religion, imprisons political dissenters, uses slave labour, tramples on human rights - and why...