Car parking
Dear Plymouth City Council,
In car parks of the 'pay and display' variety, what proportion of
fines in each of the last four years have been issued for 'failure
to display the ticket' correctly; what proportion for not
displaying a ticket at all; and what proportion for overstaying the
period parked for?
Yours faithfully,
Jack Keith-Smith
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Please ask for: The Parking Systems Team
Date of request: 24/08/15
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Dear Mr Keith-Smith
Thank you for your request for information below which is being handled
under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and this e-mail is a full
response to that application.
You asked for:-
Q1 In car parks of the 'pay and display' variety, what proportion
of fines in each of the last four years have been issued for 'failure to
display the ticket' correctly; what proportion for not displaying a
ticket at all; and what proportion for overstaying the period parked for?
A1 The table below outlines the number of Penalty Charge Notices
issued for contraventions ’83 No Valid P&D Tickets’ and ’82 Ticket
Expired’. The contravention groups, used nationwide and as set by the
Department for Transport, do not include a contravention for ‘failure to
display the ticket correctly’
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|By contravention date |No Valid P&D|Ticket Expired|Total number valid|
|(financial year) | | |PCN’s issued |
|-------------------------+------------+--------------+------------------|
|2014/15 |3,347 |2,449 |5,796 |
|-------------------------+------------+--------------+------------------|
|2013/14 |2,967 |2,161 |5,128 |
|-------------------------+------------+--------------+------------------|
|2012/13 |3,043 |2,382 |5,425 |
|-------------------------+------------+--------------+------------------|
|2011/12^* |459 |334 |793 |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
^*The Penalty Charge Notice data held by Plymouth City Council’s is
regularly purged to comply with data retention policies. In view of this,
the information provided for the 2011/12 period is not a full
representation of the penalty charge notices issued under the
contraventions types selected within that time period.
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Regards
K Phillips
Parking Systems Officer
Street Services
Plymouth City Council
Ballard House
West Hoe Road
Plymouth
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