Breakdown of written-off council tax

English councils wrote off more than £130m of unpaid tax last year, according to figures from the Department for Commmunities and Local Government. Here is the full breakdown.

COUNCIL TAX WRITTEN OFF 2006/7

Council	£ 000s
East Midlands
Amber Valley	63
Ashfield	213
Bassetlaw	369
Blaby	143
Bolsover	157
Boston	74
Broxtowe	290
Charnwood	276
Chesterfield	48
Corby	28
Daventry	25
Derby UA	1,014
Derbyshire Dales	16
East Lindsey	125
East Northamptonshire	70
Erewash	11
Gedling	61
Harborough	186
High Peak	90
Hinckley & Bosworth	79
Kettering	177
Leicester UA	472
Lincoln	395
Mansfield	214
Melton	86
Newark & Sherwood	161
North East Derbyshire	89
North Kesteven	23
North West Leicestershire	239
Northampton	100
Nottingham City UA	1,617
Oadby & Wigston	84
Rushcliffe	194
Rutland UA	40
South Derbyshire	32
South Holland	75
South Kesteven	111
South Northamptonshire	165
Wellingborough	60
West Lindsey	244
Total	7,916
East of England
Babergh	-37
Basildon	471
Bedford	238
Braintree	382
Breckland	119
Brentwood	86
Broadland	74
Broxbourne	64
Cambridge	397
Castle Point	147
Chelmsford	435
Colchester	183
Dacorum	35
East Cambridgeshire	8
East Hertfordshire	117
Epping Forest	378
Fenland	5
Forest Heath	64
Great Yarmouth	294
Harlow	199
Hertsmere	232
Huntingdonshire	152
Ipswich	209
Kings Lynn & West Norfolk	145
Luton UA	183
Maldon	55
Mid Bedfordshire	41
Mid Suffolk	45
North Hertfordshire	92
North Norfolk	49
Norwich	294
Peterborough UA	201
Rochford	40
South Bedfordshire	417
South Cambridgeshire	137
South Norfolk	79
Southend-on-Sea UA	614
St Albans	139
St Edmundsbury	634
Stevenage	70
Suffolk Coastal	106
Tendring	305
Three Rivers	222
Thurrock UA	285
Uttlesford	126
Watford	323
Waveney	37
Welwyn Hatfield	276
Total	9,167
London
Barking & Dagenham	957
Barnet	1,534
Bexley	603
Brent	3,623
Bromley	747
Camden	1,603
City of London	6
Croydon	408
Ealing	141
Enfield	-242
Greenwich	1,007
Hackney	2,133
Hammersmith & Fulham	1,632
Haringey	6,391
Harrow	1,590
Havering	1,135
Hillingdon	997
Hounslow	1,233
Islington	2,616
Kensington & Chelsea	830
Kingston upon Thames	1,543
Lambeth	1,957
Lewisham	2,920
Merton	743
Newham	1,266
Redbridge	3,013
Richmond upon Thames	123
Southwark	1,583
Sutton	370
Tower Hamlets	988
Waltham Forest	2,468
Wandsworth	1,200
Westminster	2,120
Total	49,238
North East
Alnwick	74
Berwick-upon-Tweed	22
Blyth Valley	53
Castle Morpeth	26
Chester-le-Street	48
Darlington UA	365
Derwentside	72
Durham City	114
Easington	238
Gateshead	949
Hartlepool UA	154
Middlesbrough UA	115
Newcastle upon Tyne	45
North Tyneside	265
Redcar & Cleveland UA	845
Sedgefield	55
South Tyneside	91
Stockton-on-Tees UA	354
Sunderland	448
Teesdale	0
Tynedale	17
Wansbeck	91
Wear Valley	-22
Total	4,419
North West
Allerdale	178
Barrow-in-Furness	13
Blackburn with Darwen UA	661
Blackpool UA	560
Bolton	863
Burnley	511
Bury	73
Carlisle	114
Chester	209
Chorley	181
Congleton	90
Copeland	9
Crewe and Nantwich	148
Eden	16
Ellesmere Port & Neston	52
Fylde	141
Halton UA	163
Hyndburn	455
Knowsley	500
Lancaster	299
Liverpool	-15
Macclesfield	186
Manchester	5,068
Oldham	-3
Pendle	47
Preston	942
Ribble Valley	15
Rochdale	146
Rossendale	217
Salford	3,241
Sefton	755
South Lakeland	105
South Ribble	152
St Helens	281
Stockport	160
Tameside	15
Trafford	28
Vale Royal	235
Warrington UA	2
West Lancashire	93
Wigan	451
Wirral	1,250
Wyre	0
Total	18,607
South East
Adur	73
Arun	284
Ashford	4
Aylesbury Vale	253
Basingstoke & Deane	103
Bracknell Forest UA	132
Brighton and Hove	938
Canterbury	183
Cherwell	84
Chichester	197
Chiltern	51
Crawley	707
Dartford	410
Dover	71
East Hampshire	175
Eastbourne	423
Eastleigh	119
Elmbridge	137
Epsom and Ewell	38
Fareham	25
Gosport	57
Gravesham	743
Guildford	102
Hart	202
Hastings	5
Havant	143
Horsham	205
Isle of Wight UA	108
Lewes	72
Maidstone	148
Medway Towns UA	278
Mid Sussex	184
Milton Keynes UA	448
Mole Valley	121
New Forest	235
Oxford	538
Portsmouth UA	64
Reading UA	429
Reigate & Banstead	215
Rother	89
Runnymede	80
Rushmoor	139
Sevenoaks	270
Shepway	145
Slough UA	2,930
South Bucks	228
South Oxfordshire	-53
Southampton UA	1,158
Spelthorne	159
Surrey Heath	312
Swale	414
Tandridge	81
Test Valley	41
Thanet	870
Tonbridge & Malling	84
Tunbridge Wells	93
Vale of White Horse	49
Waverley	15
Wealden	70
West Berkshire UA	50
West Oxfordshire	82
Winchester	95
Windsor & Maidenhead UA	115
Woking	229
Wokingham UA	267
Worthing	-4
Wycombe	464
Total	17,176
South West
Bath & North East Somerset	352
Bournemouth UA	546
Bristol	1,692
Caradon	114
Carrick	41
Cheltenham	65
Christchurch	-12
Cotswold	63
East Devon	56
East Dorset	34
Exeter	431
Forest of Dean	32
Gloucester	241
Isles of Scilly	0
Kennet	63
Kerrier	58
Mendip	124
Mid Devon	72
North Cornwall	57
North Devon	160
North Dorset	50
North Somerset UA	950
North Wiltshire	78
Penwith	17
Plymouth UA	559
Poole UA	188
Purbeck	31
Restormel	158
Salisbury	106
Sedgemoor	-7
South Gloucestershire UA	411
South Hams	67
South Somerset	341
Stroud	95
Swindon UA	1,444
Taunton Deane	35
Teignbridge	62
Tewkesbury	40
Torbay UA	439
Torridge	226
West Devon	9
West Dorset	28
West Somerset	57
West Wiltshire	1,030
Weymouth & Portland	49
Total	10,652
West Midlands
Birmingham	421
Bridgnorth	71
Bromsgrove	289
Cannock Chase	137
Coventry	543
Dudley	369
East Staffordshire	202
Herefordshire UA	102
Lichfield	74
Malvern Hills	62
Newcastle-under-Lyme	48
North Shropshire	40
North Warwickshire	57
Nuneaton & Bedworth	129
Oswestry	182
Redditch	22
Rugby	139
Sandwell	517
Shrewsbury & Atcham	1
Solihull	140
South Shropshire	4
South Staffordshire	348
Stafford	-53
Staffordshire Moorlands	97
Stoke-on-Trent UA	328
Stratford-on-Avon	152
Tamworth	50
Telford & Wrekin UA	64
Walsall	899
Warwick	148
Wolverhampton	757
Worcester	208
Wychavon	111
Wyre Forest	58
Total	6,716
Yorkshire and the Humber
Barnsley	81
Bradford	342
Calderdale	637
Craven	49
Doncaster	250
East Riding of Yorkshire UA	530
Hambleton	65
Harrogate	255
Kingston upon Hull UA	500
Kirklees	2,752
Leeds	1,651
North East Lincolnshire UA	36
North Lincolnshire UA	201
Richmondshire	45
Rotherham	260
Ryedale	47
Scarborough	708
Selby	60
Sheffield	839
Wakefield	232
York UA	324
Total	9,864
Total England	133,755
Source: DCLG

Relates to tax written off in 2006/7, irrespective of year to which it relates
Where moneys originally written off are later collected, it can result in a negative total figure