HC Deb 21 October 1991 vol 196 cc342-3W
Sir John Wheeler

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he has reached a decision on the setting of new levels of fixed penalties for road traffic offences.

Mr. Kenneth Baker

After considering the results of the consultation exercise on the level of fixed penalties, I have decided that the new penalty levels should be £40 for offences involving obligatory endorsement; £40 for illegal parking on a red route; £30 for illegal parking in London outside the red routes and £20 for illegal parking elsewhere and for all other non-endorsable offences. These penalty levels will be brought into effect from 1 April 1992. A statutory instrument subject to the negative resolution procedure will be laid in due course.