HC Deb 22 July 1963 vol 681 cc137-8W
Mr. MacDermot

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many traffic wardens were employed in the Metropolitan Police District and the City of London on 1st March, 1963.

Mr. Woodhouse

367 traffic wardens were employed by the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis on 1st March, 1963. I understand that in the City of London 41 traffic wardens were employed on that date.

Mr. MacDermot

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers and civilian staff were employed in the Central Ticket Office, and any annexe or subsidiary office, on 1st March, 1963, on the administration of the traffic warden service and the fixed penalty system; what is the estimated annual cost of their remuneration, including pension charge; and what proportion of that cost is chargeable against parking meter revenue.

Mr. Woodhouse

On 1st March, 1963, 24 Metropolitan Police officers and 197 members of the Commissioner's civil staff were employed on the supervision and administration of traffic wardens and in the Central Ticket Office. 20 members of the Metropolitan Magistrates' Courts staff were employed in the Fixed Penalty Office. The estimated annual cost of the remuneration and pension charge of the civil staff and Courts staff is £185,400 and of the police officers £45,513. Traffic wardens act as parking meter attendants in Westminster, St. Pancras, Shoreditch, Finsbury and Paddington and during the year ended 31st March, 1963, these boroughs paid £98,965 in respect of these services.