Council Fourth Highest on Loans League Table

BALLYMENA Borough Council has one of the highest loans per head of population, a report published by the Chief Local Government Auditor, John Buchanan, has revealed.
By The Newsroom
Published 29th Jun 2010, 11:28 BST

The report on the exercise by local government auditors of their functions provides background to local government and its management of resources.

It also highlights a range of issues that local government auditors have raised with councils in the course of the audit of the council's statement of accounts for the year to March 31, 2009.

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A league table showing the various loan positions at March 31, 2008, puts Ballymena Borough Council fourth highest out of 26 local authorities with a total of 29.1m which works out at 468 per head of population - well above the provincial average of 234 per head.