How many penalty charge notices were issued in the last year?
Figures released by London Councils show that a total of 5,466,219 PCNs were issued by the boroughs and Transport for London (TfL) between 1 April 2008 and 31 March 2009. This is a reduction of 710,533 from the previous year. The number of tickets issued for illegal parking fell this year by around 11 per cent to 4,689,309, while 540,120 penalties were issued for moving traffic contraventions a drop of around 71,000 from the previous year. Penalties for illegally driving in bus lanes were down by a 20 per cent from last year to 233,927. This means that the number of PCNs issued to people wrongly using bus lanes has nearly halved in two years with 409,422 issued in 2006/07.
