Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department is taking steps to review the (a) operation and (b) fines attached to Parking Charge Notices.

We have no current plans to raise on-street parking penalty charges. It is important to strike the right balance between deterrence and fairness. Organisations representing local authorities have undertaken research into penalty charge levels and shared their findings with the Department. The Department will be reviewing the issue in light of this research.

Local authorities may employ contractors to carry out on-street civil parking enforcement on their behalf, but ultimately, it is the local authority to which parking fines are payable.