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Mr M Harding

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Date: 11 July 2008

Your Ref:

Our Ref: BB/J671503/CM

Corr No: IN350357

Dear Mr Harding

Freedom of Information request 1-112015754

I refer to your e-mail received on 30 June 2008.

In response to your request please find below data from the last five financial years regarding costs and income from the Controlled Parking Zones (CPZ).

Description	2003-2004	2004-2005	2005-2006	2006-2007	2007-2008
Contract Costs CPS¹	£3,002,815.03	£ 3,284,427.99	£ 3,427,111.35	£ 3,684,027.27	N/A (Not Applicable)
Contract Costs NCP²	N/A	N/A	N/A	£ 1,323,930.24	£ 4,475,842.77
Vehicle Uplift Lorries, Salary Cost for these lorries	£357,545.11	£ 385,855.40	£ 391,097.91	£ 277,440.38	See note 2
New Signposts and road markings	N/A See note 3	N/A See note 3	N/A See note 3	£ 1,580,160.18	N/A
Replacement signposts & road markings	See note 4	See note 4	See note 4	See notes 2 & 4	See note 2
Installation of Ticket Issue Machines^*	See note *	See note *	See note *	£ 2,052,281.00	N/A
Maintenance of Ticket Issue Machines	£ 172,057.00	£ 172,057.00	£ 172,057.00	£ 416,357.00	£ 416,357.00

Income from Penalty Charge Notices	£ 7,090,317.40	£ 6,898,183.47	£ 7,314,497.00	£ 5,693,784.31	£ 6,745,900.20
Income from Impounds (removal charges)	£ 326,205.50	£ 361,497.11	£ 396,834.51	£ 240,561.91	£ 331,913.00
Income from Impounds (storage charges)	£ 4,845.00	£ 13,896.00	£ 12,999.00	£ 7,621.00	£ 4,514.00
Income from Pay and Display tickets	£ 8,239,699.81	£ 8,942,761.05	£ 8,646,531.45	£ 9,875,628.50	£ 11,584,996.13
Income from Residential Parking Permits	£ 947,961.00	£ 947,497.00	£ 919,105.00	£ 1,406,421.00	£ 1,716,203.00

¹The enforcement contract with CPS ended on 3 December 2006 and included the following: recruitment of Parking Attendants, Training of Parking Attendants and Salaries of Parking Attendants.

²The enforcement contract with NCP started on 3 December 2006 and includes the following: -

a on-street parking enforcement services;
b vehicle removals (previously managed in house by the Council);
c signs and lines maintenance;
d cash collection, counting, banking and ticket machine maintenance (previously managed in house by the Council); and
e an integrated parking ICT system which includes: notice processing software; electronic parking permits; document scanning; workflow and postal payment processing.

³ The original Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) was implemented over five years ago and therefore I have no information regarding costs of the installation of the road markings and signage. 2006-2007: Cost for implementation of road markings and signage relating to the Extended Controlled Parking Zone (ECPZ).

4 I cannot determine the costs for replacement signposts and road markings prior to December 2006 as these costs were not separately identified within the department's maintenance budget.

*The Ticket Issue Machines (TIMs) introduced in the original CPZ zones 1-8, were purchased in 2002 and installed between January and March 2003. I cannot supply costs for installing the ticket machines in the original zones. 700 TIMs were purchased for the ECPZ which includes zones N1-N5 and S1-S4. The first zones went live in September 2006 and the last zones were introduced in November 2007. However, all the TIMs for the ECPZ were purchased in financial year 2006-2007.

Note: if you are not happy with this response, or want to complain about the way in which we handled your application, please write to the Director of Corporate Services, Waverley Court, 4 East Market Street, Edinburgh, EH8 8EG.

If, after you have received a reply from the Director of Corporate Services, you remain dissatisfied, you have the right to appeal to the Scottish Information Commissioner: Scottish Information Commissioner, Kinburn Castle, Doubledykes Road, St Andrews KY16 9DS (e-mail: xxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx)

If you have any questions or wish to discuss the matter further, please do not hesitate to contact me on 0131 469 3244.

Yours sincerely

Charlotte Moore

Customer Care Section

Parking Operations