Philip Boynes, chief executive of Britain’s biggest parking firm, PrivateEye, told MPs on the Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee last week that the “average profit of a car parking operator was about 2.1%”.īut RAC Foundation director Steve Gooding said the DVLA’s figures “cast doubt on the industry view shared with the committee that margins are hanging by a hairsbreadth”. The implementation of a Government-sanctioned code of practice, a single appeals service and a system of charges and penalties that would be more in line with those levied by councils is awaiting ministerial sign-off. Tickets can cost drivers as much as £100. Statistics from the Government show that 1.95 million tickets were issued in relation to sites such as shopping centres, leisure facilities and motorway service areas – if that rate continues for the rest of the financial year, the total would come close to the record high of 8.4 million set in 2019/20. That is up 64% from 97 during the same period in 2016. Nearly two million parking tickets were issued to drivers between April and June this year by private parking firms, whose numbers have increased by almost two-thirds in the last five years.Īnalysis by the RAC Foundation found that 159 companies obtained records from the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) to chase car owners for alleged infringements in private car parks during this period.

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