View from the UK Parliament
As the profile of the issues surrounding foreign registered vehicles rises, politicians across the spectrum are beginning to recognise the economic and societal consequences arising from growing numbers of foreign vehicle owners ignoring UK driving and parking rules.
Questions have been tabled by politicians across the political spectrum. They reflect concerns that the Government is not yet working proactively to resolve the data sharing and legal issues between the UK and other EU member states that prevent enforcement of penalty notices against foreign registered vehicles.
Philip Hollobone (Kettering) (Con): A worrying proportion of fatalities, accidents and near-misses involving HGVs on the M1 and A14 in Northamptonshire is down to foreign lorry drivers and foreign lorries. When will the Government take that issue extremely seriously? 23 October 2009 [view answer] [Hansard]Mr. Fallon: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what steps his Department takes to recover vehicle excise duty payments outstanding from the registered keepers of vehicles who do not have an address in the UK; how much was spent on such recovery in the last year for which figures are availab... 27 October 2008 [view answer] [Hansard]Stewart Jackson (Peterborough, Conservative) To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what assessment she has made of the effect on the revenue to local authorities of the non-payment of parking fines in respect of vehicles where their legal keepers by virtue of their registration are (a) non-EEA... 14 March 2008 [view answer] [Hansard]Mr. Hands: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what estimate his Department has made of the cost of traffic penalty evasion by foreign registered vehicles in the UK. [132941] 23 April 2007 [view answer] [Hansard]Mr. Spellar: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what estimate his Department has made of the amount of fines and charges unpaid by the owners of foreign registered vehicles in the UK in each of the last five years. [80827] 28 June 2006 [view answer] [Hansard] |
Facts & Figures- London has an exceptionally high level of foreign vehicle activity - the city accounts for 7% of all UK traffic activity, but 20% of FRV activity
- 3% of all traffic activity in London is FRV
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