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Number of citizens who were refused discharge from their Protected Trust Deed (PTD) from 01/04/2023 to 31/03/2024: FOI release

Published: 3 June 2024
Topic: Money and tax, Public sector
FOI reference: FOI/202400410736
Date received: 18 April 2024
Date responded: 15 May 2024

Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002

Information requested

How many citizens were refused discharge from their Protected Trust Deed (PTD) from 01/04/2023 to 31/03/2024? Can this info also show how many cases belonged to each Insolvency Practitioner.
How much money was ingathered from citizens who failed to be discharged for their PTD from 01/04/2023 to 31/03/2024? If possible, please can you give a breakdown of money ingathered by each Insolvency Practitioners.
What was the average length of time from a PTD being protected to the PTD failing and the citizen being refused their discharge?
How much of the money ingathered was paid out as a dividend to creditors?
What was the average amount of debt for these failed cases?
How many of these cases were homeowners?
How many of these cases then self-sequestered via a debtor application. Please advise of how many of these cases were Minimal Asset Process applications.

Response

	Request	Total
1	How many citizens were refused discharge from their Protected Trust Deed (PTD) from 01/04/2023 to 31/03/2024? Can this info also show how many cases belonged to each Insolvency Practitioner.	837 see Table 1 below
2	How much money was ingathered from citizens who failed to be discharged for their PTD from 01/04/2023 to 31/03/2024? If possible, please can you give a breakdown of money ingathered by each Insolvency Practitioners.	£1,371,261.78 see Table 2 below
3	What was the average length of time from a PTD being protected to the PTD failing and the citizen being refused their discharge?	1080 Days
4	How much of the money ingathered was paid out as a dividend to creditors?	£53,491.77
5	What was the average amount of debt for these failed cases?	£15,395.15
6	How many of these cases were homeowners?	20
7	How many of these cases then self-sequestered via a debtor application. Please advise of how many of these cases were Minimal Asset Process applications.	16 self sequestrated 9 MAP applications

Table 1		Table 2
Insolvency Practitioner	Debtors Refused Discharge	Insolvency Practitioner	Amount Ingathered
Annette Menzies	5	Annette Menzies	£18,314.33
Barry Mochan	1	Barry Mochan	£609.00
Blair Carnegie Nimmo	35	Blair Carnegie Nimmo	£69,757.00
Blair Milne	9	Blair Milne	£28,205.82
Colin Andrew Albert Murdoch	8	Colin Andrew Albert Murdoch	£24,173.82
Derek Forsyth	3	Derek Forsyth	£8,447.72
Donald McKinnon	12	Donald McKinnon	£16,953.76
Donna Forey	35	Donna Forey	£49,743.84
Dylan Quail	17	Dylan Quail	£52,458.85
Gordon Chalmers	15	Gordon Chalmers	£28,964.58
Guy Damian Withey	2	Guy Damian Withey	£0.00
Jamie Carmichael	255	Jamie Carmichael	£292,705.43
Katie McLachlan	1	Katie McLachlan	£1,253.04
Kenneth Craig	6	Kenneth Craig	£3,133.49
Kenneth G LeMay	3	Kenneth G LeMay	£19,718.82
Kenneth Wilson Pattullo	6	Kenneth Wilson Pattullo	£14,323.91
Kevin Duffy	2	Kevin Duffy	£2,894.60
Kevin Mapstone	2	Kevin Mapstone	£2,146.41
Lynne Flower	22	Lynne Flower	£27,158.73
Nick Payne	9	Nick Payne	£16,623.83
Samantha Warburton	179	Samantha Warburton	£356,464.52
Thomas Fox	207	Thomas Fox	£330,287.94
Tracey Howarth	3	Tracey Howarth	£6,922.34

Grand Total	837	Grand Total	£1,371,261.78

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