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23/10/2013
MPs Call For Parking 'Grace Period'
The Commons Transport Committee has called for "five minutes grace" for drivers whose parking ticket has expired, warning that it was "neither acceptable nor legal" for councils to use fine to increase revenue.
Claiming that each year councils make "a surplus of hundreds of millions" from fines, the Transport Committee added that if they want to prove fines are not being used as a "cash cow", all councils in England should publish annual parking-charge accounts.
MPs on the committee called on ministers to freeze the current charges - £130 on London, £70 elsewhere.
Highlighting that public perception is of parking fines being used to raise revenue, the committee said local authorities need to apply "stringent transparency".
The government have welcomed the recommendations.
(MH/CD)
Claiming that each year councils make "a surplus of hundreds of millions" from fines, the Transport Committee added that if they want to prove fines are not being used as a "cash cow", all councils in England should publish annual parking-charge accounts.
MPs on the committee called on ministers to freeze the current charges - £130 on London, £70 elsewhere.
Highlighting that public perception is of parking fines being used to raise revenue, the committee said local authorities need to apply "stringent transparency".
The government have welcomed the recommendations.
(MH/CD)
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