News from Westminster Labour

Audit investigation into Westminster ‘parking ticket targets’

Allegations of ‘parking ticket targets’ are to be the subject of a Westminster City Council audit investigation, following concerns raised by Labour Councillors after the recent Channel 4 ‘Confessions of a Parking Warden’ programme revealed that some parking wardens in Westminster said that they were under pressure to maximize the number of parking tickets they issue each day.

Now, following pressure from Labour Councillors, the Council’s Chief Executive, Mike More, has told Councillor Paul Dimoldenberg, Leader of the Labour Group:

“I and my senior management team accept that this is an issue which requires continual vigilance, and will therefore include a review of ticket issuing in the audit programme for next year, to check that the measures now being taken have been effective in removing any suggestion of an inappropriate target-setting ‘culture’.”

Councillor Dimoldenberg said:

“There is widespread concern that the Council’s parking policies are more about raising money than simply enforcing the parking regulations and the recent TV programme has fuelled those very real concerns. We hope that the forthcoming Audit investigation will expose any attempts to re-introduce parking ticket targets by the back door.”

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