Question follow-through · 97679
Parking: Fines
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she is taking steps to improve grace periods for parking fines and transparency for the appeal and enforcement process.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 5 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 9 Dec 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she is taking steps to improve grace periods for parking fines and transparency for the appeal and enforcement process.
9 Dec 2025
Target answer date
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9 Dec 2025
Answer published
A 10-minute grace period became mandatory for all councils in England on 6 April 2015. It applies at local authority owned or operated car parks and at the end of paid-for and free on-street parking in England. The grace period only applies at the end of ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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