§ Mr. WrayTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions what assessment he has made of how much revenue has been obtained from parking fines in each year since 1997. [46165]
§ Ms KeebleParking fines are issued by local authorities and the police service. The table below sets out the information available to the Department on total local authority income from parking in England and Wales. This is published inLocal Government Financial Statistics; England and Welsh Local Government Financial Statistics. The figures include income from penalty charge notices and excess charge notices as well as parking charges—the Department does not have a breakdown of these elements.
Year Income1 £ 1997–98 652,644,000 1998–99 668,929,000 1999–2000 739,645,000 2000–01 799,719,000 1 Covers all local authority income from parking, including fines. The following table shows the number of fixed penalty notices (FPNs) issued by police forces in England and Wales for obstruction, waiting and parking offences and estimated related income, which accrued to the Consolidated Fund, in each of the years since 1997 for which figures are available was as follows: 957W
Year Number of FPNs Estimated FPN income £ 1997 2,199,000 45,590,000 1998 2,118,000 44,425,000 1999 1,808,000 38,087,000 2000 1,595,000 33,877,000