Question follow-through · 15246
Parking Offences: Fines
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing regulations for standard fines in car parks owned by private operators.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 1 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 6 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 6 Jul 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing regulations for standard fines in car parks owned by private operators.
6 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Jul 2026
Answer published
The government is carefully considering options on the level of the private parking charge cap as part of its work to introduce a new private parking Code of Practice. The government intends to lay this new Code before parliament in autumn 2026.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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