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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.

Costs of Penalty Evasion
Cross Border Penalty Enforcement EU
Databases and Data Protection
Deposit System
Draft Local Transport Bill

Mr. Paterson: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether failure to pay road user charges to local authority road pricing schemes is planned to be made a criminal offence. [139830]

05 June 2007 [view answer]
Mr. Hands: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) what account his Department has taken of the enforcement of civil traffic penalties against foreign registered vehicles in (a) plans for a national road user charging scheme and (b) the forthcoming Road Transport Bill (2) what account has b...

24 April 2007 [view answer] [Hansard]
DVLA
European Electronic Tolling Systems
FRVs and Accidents
HGVs on UK Roads
House of Lords debates
Parking Penalties
Prum Treaty
Road Charging
Sixth Month Rule and Registration
The Northern Irish Angle
The size of the problem

Facts & Figures

  • 330,000 penalty charge notices worth £12.9 million are issued to foreign-registered vehicles in London each year for parking and other contraventions
  • 1 in 8 foreign registered vehicle owners fails to pay their congestion charge
  • A third of persistent evaders (three or more PCN’s) are foreign-registered vehicles
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