Parking and Traffic Offences Debate

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Parking and Traffic Offences

Lord Bradshaw Excerpts
Wednesday 6th October 2010

(14 years, 10 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Earl Attlee Portrait Earl Attlee
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My Lords, unfortunately, this is a Question about parking charges, not the congestion charge.

Lord Bradshaw Portrait Lord Bradshaw
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Would the Minister go for a more imaginative solution? France has just announced that it is implementing a road-charging scheme for lorries and Germany did so two years ago. Why do we keep saying that we will not have a scheme in this country for charging foreign vehicles for using our roads?

Earl Attlee Portrait Earl Attlee
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Again, this is a Question about parking charges, but such matters are under review.