Southwark Labour’s poor record collecting council tax has cost every household in the borough £135, according to new figures.

Labour-run Southwark Council has given up on over £12m in unpaid council tax in the past four years – an average of more than £3m per year. It puts Southwark amongst the worst-performing areas in London for council tax collection, ranking 20^th out of the 32 boroughs in the capital.

With 88,830 council tax payers in the borough, it also means every household has paid out a total of £135 since 2010 to subsidise the non-payers.

Southwark Liberal Democrats have already made a manifesto commitment to get better value for money for residents by increasing collection rates, passing all the extra revenue on to residents through a council tax cut of at least 1%.