Parking and Traffic Offences

Lord Davies of Oldham Excerpts

Wednesday 6th October 2010 Lords Chamber

[Earl Attlee]

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

[Lord Davies of Oldham]

Will the Minister reconsider the inadequate answer that he gave to my noble friend a moment ago? This Question is about traffic offences and congestion charges are part of traffic offences. My noble friend asked about the vast sums of money owed by certain diplomatic missions for their offences with regard to congestion charges in London. We want a better answer from the Minister.

[Earl Attlee]

My Lords, I accept the noble Lord’s point. We will exercise pressure on diplomatic missions when they are not paying their fines or congestion charges. However, the noble Lord will understand that it is a difficult problem, which is why the previous Government found it just as difficult as we will find it in future.