FOI release

Parking offences from January 2020 - June 2023

Some or all of the information requested was not provided because we determined that the cost to do so would exceed the appropriate limit.

Case reference FOI2023/01754

Published 16 November 2023

Request

I am writing to you to request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. 

1. Please give details of the parking enforcement actions that you (or contractors on your behalf) took over the past three years (2020, 2021, 2022, 1st Jan - 30 June 2023):

• Total number of parking enforcement notices issued

• Number of parking tickets (Penalty Charge Notice (PCN) or an Excess Charge Notice (ECN)) issued

• Number of vehicles clamped

• Number of vehicles towed / removed

• Council net revenue (after paying contractors) from parking fines (Penalty Charge Notice (PCN) or an Excess Charge Notice (ECN))

• Council net revenue (after paying contractors) from those paying to remove clamps

• Council net revenue (after paying contractors) from those paying towing fines

Response

I am writing to you to request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. 

1. Please give details of the parking enforcement actions that you (or contractors on your behalf) took over the past three years (2020, 2021, 2022, 1st Jan - 30 June 2023):

• Total number of parking enforcement notices issued

• Number of parking tickets (Penalty Charge Notice (PCN) or an Excess Charge Notice (ECN)) issued

• Number of vehicles clamped

• Number of vehicles towed / removed

• Council net revenue (after paying contractors) from parking fines (Penalty Charge Notice (PCN) or an Excess Charge Notice (ECN))

• Council net revenue (after paying contractors) from those paying to remove clamps

• Council net revenue (after paying contractors) from those paying towing fines

This information is not held in a form that would enable it to be located, retrieved and extracted within the Appropriate Time Limit which equates to 18 hours as defined by the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limits and Fees) Regulations 2004.

For the following 4 points: Number of vehicles clamped; Number of vehicles towed / removed; Council net revenue (after paying contractors) from those paying to remove clamps; and Council net revenue (after paying contractors) from those paying towing fines, our electronic reporting systems are unable to run a report for this information. To ascertain the data requested, officers would need to manually check individual files for this information. An initial search has shown that between 1500 - 2000 files would need to be checked for this information, and it is estimated that it would take 5 minutes to check each file. Once the details had been identified this would need to be noted and once all files had been checked in this way, the total figures requested could be calculated.

This would at a conservative estimate take at least 125 hours to complete. Where the Limit is exceeded Public Authorities are not obliged to supply the information requested by virtue of S12 of the Act. Please take this letter as a refusal notice under S17 of the Act.

However, within the 18 hour limit, we can provide answers for the remaining 3 points: Total number of parking enforcement notices issued; Number of parking tickets (Penalty Charge Notice (PCN) or an Excess Charge Notice (ECN)) issued; and Council net revenue (after paying contractors) from parking fines (Penalty Charge Notice (PCN) or an Excess Charge Notice (ECN)), as requested. Please advise us if this is something you require.

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