Clean Air Zones

(asked on 15th March 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March 2021 to Question 163196 on Clean Air Zones, what assessment he has made of the effect of the period of time between collecting the clean air zone fee on road users and the payment of the £2 charge levied by his Department to access the central services unit for clean air zones on local authorities’ budgets.


Answered by
Rachel Maclean Portrait
Rachel Maclean
This question was answered on 22nd March 2021

Motorists that are required to pay a Clean Air Zone charge must pay the charge no later than one week from the day of travel. Clean Air Zone charges collected by local authorities are available within 7 days of payment.

Invoicing terms are subject to agreements between local authorities and the department but local authorities will be required to pay to use the CAZ Central Service no more frequently than every quarter. Invoices will cover use of the CAZ central services in the previous quarter and will be required to be paid approximately two months after end of the same quarter.

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