Road Traffic Offences: Fixed Penalties

(asked on 1st September 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to require (a) local authorities and (b) Transport for London to use any money acquired through Penalty Charge Notices for motoring offences to improve roads or public transport.


Answered by
Richard Holden Portrait
Richard Holden
Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 11th September 2023

Regulation 27 of The Civil Enforcement of Road Traffic Contraventions (Approved Devices, Charging Guidelines and General Provisions) (England) Regulations 2022 already restricts the use of any income from civil enforcement of traffic contraventions in all English local authorities including Transport for London. It can only be used to fund enforcement costs; costs incurred by the local authority of other schemes to improve local transport and the environment, including local public transport schemes; highway or road improvement projects, and improvement measures to reduce environmental pollution.

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