The number of parking tickets issued in the UK rises almost 30 per cent

06 November 2023

Analysis of Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) data produced by PA News and the RAC Foundation found that motorists in the UK received a record-breaking 11.1 million parking tickets from private firms in the year leading up to March 2023.

This is a daily average of 30,400 parking notices every day and equates to an annual rise of 29 per cent.

Importantly, these figures do not take into account data about car parks run by local councils across the UK.

This increase is one of several parking-related issues currently facing motorists, in addition to the scrappage of payment machines in favour of phone apps and rising parking fees.

New legislation in the form of a Private Parking Code of Practice was promised by the UK government in 2019 and later withdrawn in February 2022 following legal challenges by private parking firms. Since then, there has been a call for more evidence on the topic which ended on October 8th 2023.

It is expected that a consultation on the options for parking charges and debt recovery fees will take place considering the evidence provided.

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