Parking Transactions

Ben Tweedy made this Freedom of Information request to Westminster City Council

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From: Ben Tweedy

19 January 2010

Dear Westminster City Council,

Please can you provide me with a total number of parking
transactions (Car parking and Motorcycle parking) you receive in an
average month. If information is not available for an average
month, please give me the total amount of transactions for
September 2009. I would also like to know the amount of money
received from parking transactions for that same month (be it an
average month or September 2009,).

I have presented an example below....

Total parking transactions (Motorcycle and Car parking) average per
month = 100,000

Total amount of money received from parking transactions (for the
same month obviously) average per month = £400,000.

Please note that I am only interested in figures for transaction
where a motorist or motorcyclist has paid to park by phone.
Regarding total amount of money received from parking transactions,
I am only interested in money received from people paying to park,
not money received from issued PCN's/Fines.

Yours faithfully,

Ben Tweedy

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M Laurent left an annotation (19 January 2010)

It would be interesting to have the breakdown between cars and motorcycles, not just the total of the two added together.

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Westminster City Council

20 January 2010

Confirmation of Freedom Of Information Request

Thank you for your request for information.

Your request details have now been recorded and will be passed on to the
appropriate Divisional Records Officer for action.

This Freedom Of Information Request was based on the following
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Name: Ben Tweedy
Address: See email address
Email: [FOI #27301 email]
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Request Details: Please can you provide me with a total number of
parking
transactions (Car parking and Motorcycle parking) you receive in an
average month. If information is not available for an average
month, please give me the total amount of transactions for
September 2009. I would also like to know the amount of money
received from parking transactions for that same month (be it an
average month or September 2009,).

I have presented an example below....

Total parking transactions (Motorcycle and Car parking) average per
month = 100,000

Total amount of money received from parking transactions (for the
same month obviously) average per month = £400,000.

Please note that I am only interested in figures for transaction
where a motorist or motorcyclist has paid to park by phone.
Regarding total amount of money received from parking transactions,
I am only interested in money received from people paying to park,
not money received from issued PCN's/Fines.

FOI Reference Number: 4863
Target Completion Date: 17/02/2010

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From: Ben Tweedy

20 January 2010

Dear Westminster City Council,

While you are responding to this FOI request, may i remind you that
i still have an FOI request outstanding. The reference number for
it is 4684 and you set a target date of answering it by 24/12/2009.
For your reference, you can view it here
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/co....
You have so far ignored my requests to be updated on the status of
this outstanding FOI request and ignored my request for an internal
review. I'm sure i don't need to remind you that you are well and
truly breaking the law. Please answer FOI Request 4684 ASAP.

Yours faithfully,

Ben Tweedy

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From: Ben Tweedy

17 February 2010

Dear Westminster City Council,

The response has been delayed, yet again, and you are now, yet
again, breaking the law. You should have responded by the 16th
February 2010 at the latest.

Please furnish me with the information i asked or update me with an
expected completion date by the end of today.

This is the 3rd FOI request i have made which has been left
unanswered, even after you have confirmed receipt of all of them.
I'm gonna have to get a courier now to send this all over to the
ICO, theres so much.

Yours faithfully,

Ben Tweedy

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From: Customer Relations
Westminster City Council

17 February 2010


Attachment FOI4863 Tweedy kr.doc
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Dear Mr Tweedy,

Please find the enclosed attachment below:

<<FOI4863 Tweedy kr.doc>>

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Tim Kaufman left an annotation (17 February 2010)

"Please be assured that we will endeavour to respond to you in full at the earliest possible opportunity."

Within the law would be nice.

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From: Ben Tweedy

26 February 2010

Dear Customer Relations,
In your last email to me you said "Please be assured that we will
endeavour to respond to you in full at the earliest possible
opportunity."

I am still waiting for this information, it is already delayed and
as such you are breaking the law. Please hurry this along, the ICO
has a very large backlog of complaints about WCC and your disregard
to the law and i wouldnt want to increase their workload further.

Yours sincerely,

Ben Tweedy

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From: Customer Relations
Westminster City Council

26 February 2010


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Dear Mr Tweedy,

Please refer to the enclosed attachment. I apologise for the delay in our response.

Yours sincerely

Gordon Deas
Departmental Records Officer
Parking Services

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Ben Tweedy left an annotation ( 1 March 2010)

Brilliant! Just worked out the Verrus, the Canadian provider of the crappy pay by phone system get paid just over £200K (yeah thats right, £200,OOO) in an average month from Westminster City Council. Way to go Danny and Alistair, real value for the tax payer. No wonder they're so pushy on Partnerships (should read Prats) in Parking.

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