Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he is taking steps to regulate parking enforcement companies.

The Government, following the introduction of the Parking (Code of Practice) Act 2019, is taking action to improve the regulation of the private parking industry.

Currently the Government is developing a new code of practice which will set out straightforward rules that private parking companies across England, Scotland and Wales must follow.

We are currently updating our Impact Assessment following a recent call for evidence exercise. We will publish this document in due course, alongside a consultation on parking charge levels and debt recovery fees.