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Approved Debt Payment Programmes (DPPs) by provider: FOI release
Information requested
1. Number of approved applications broken down by money advisor for the financial years 2018/19 and 2019/2020. 2. Since 4 November 2019, a breakdown number of cases allocated to each of the Payment Distributors.
Response
1. Table 1.1: The number of approved Debt Payment Programmes (DPPs) under the Debt Arrangement Scheme (DAS) by money adviser organisation, 2018-19 (1)
Organisation 2018-19 Stepchange Debt Charity Scotland 1,161 Carrington Dean Group 241 KPMG 169 Murray Stewart Fraser 101 Citizens Advice & Rights Fife North Lanarkshire Council 95 North Lanarkshire Council 92 Gregory Pennington (Wilson Andrews) 78 Campbell Dallas 49 South Lanarkshire Council - Money Matters Advice Service 49 Begbies Traynor Central 43 Dumfries & Galloway CAS 39 Hamilton CAB 37 The Moray Council 37 Perth CAB 35 Money Matters 27 Others 291 Total 2,544
Table 1.2: The number of (provisional) approved Debt Payment Programmes (DPPs) under the Debt Arrangement Scheme (DAS) by money adviser organisation, 2019-20 (1)
Organisation 2018-19 Stepchange Debt Charity Scotland 967 Carrington Dean Group 779 Harper McDermott 264 KPMG 166 Gregory Pennington (Wilson Andrews) 141 Citizens Advice & Rights Fife 69 Campbell Dallas 67 South Lanarkshire Council - Money Matters Advice Service 60 The Moray Council 57 North Lanarkshire Council 54 Begbies Traynor Central 44 Murray Stewart Fraser 34 J3 Debt Solutions 32 Hamilton CAB 27 Others 366 Total 3,127
(1) Displaying money adviser organisations with 25 or more approved DPPs only.
2. Table 2: The number of approved Debt Payment Programmes (DPPs) under the Debt Arrangement Scheme (DAS) by payment distributor, since 04 November 2019 up to 31 March 2020 (1)
Organisation 2018-19 Carrington Dean 628 Accountant in Bankruptcy 361 StepChange 329 Think Link 71 Wylie & Bisset LLP 7 Total 1,396
(1) Note that, since 04 November 2019, money adviser organisations allocated a Payment Distributor to an approved DPP on behalf of the debtor. The Accountant in Bankruptcy publish information on statistics and data and can be viewed here.
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