§ Ms. RuddockTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what proportion of parking tickets issued have been challenged in(a) London as a whole in 1990 and (b) on the red route since its inception.
§ Mr. Peter LloydComplete figures for 1990 are not yet available, but the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis informs me that, in 1989, 2,216,989 fixed penalty notices were issued in the Metropolitan police area for non-endorsable, driver-absent offences. Information is not available on all challenges to those notices, but 4,783 of them were contested by court process. Since the inception of the red route, 1,015 fixed penalty notices relating to offences on it have been recorded by the Central Ticket Office as being issued. It is too early to say how many may be challenged.