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Question follow-through · 49771

Parking: Fines

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans she has to (a) review and (b) increase the maximum level of parking fines that can be issued by councils outside London.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
1 May 2025
Target answer date
6 May 2025
Answer
12 May 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 1 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans she has to (a) review and (b) increase the maximum level of parking fines that can be issued by councils outside London.

  2. 6 May 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 12 May 2025

    Answer published

    A number of parking sector stakeholders conducted research recently into this issue. It has been shared with the Department and officials will be reviewing the research and its findings in due course, and that will then inform decisions about next steps.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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