Council spent £10,000 on parking charges in a year
Hackney Council spent more than £10,000 on parking penalties and charges over a 12-month period, the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) can reveal.
Data on council payments below £250 obtained by a Freedom of Information (FOI) request shows employees spent a grand total of £10,253 on parking charges, enforcement and road penalty fines between 1 April 2025 and 31 March 2026.
Half the bill owed to TfL
Around half of this expenditure (£5,640) was to pay for 47 penalty charge notices (PCNs) issued by Transport for London (TfL) after staff flouted driving or parking rules. The local authority incurred an additional £4,613 on parking penalties, including from its own car parks.
Fines from a rival borough
Aside from TfL, the recipient of the largest amount in penalty charges was Waltham Forest Council, to which Hackney shelled out £3,100. Alongside this, the council made various smaller payments including £233 to UK Parking Control, £206 to ParkingEye and £160 to National Parking Enforcement.
On top of this, the council spent roughly £490 on routine parking payments and £850 in fees to TfL, such as for ULEZ and congestion charges.
The LDRS contacted the council several times but at the time of publication it had not provided any comment.
£11m collected, £10,000 spent
In the 2024/25 financial year, Hackney Council collected £11.3 million in revenue from PCNs and parking enforcement.
I wonder how much they spend on taxis and transport for staff to get to meetings or site visits or just getting to work
Why is the Council spending public money on paying fines etc incurred by slovenly Council employees, anyway? Its doing so simply encourages anyone driving a Hackney Council vehicle to ignore the law, certain that they won’t personally pay the penalty.
If they didn’t have any alternative but to pay for their wilfully breaking the law, they’d be much more careful drivers.
Judgmental piece – some of those workers could be care staff, emergency repair works etc.
odd that the council didn’t say that if you’re right Jean. Alternatively, they could be racked up by the sort of unaccountable officials we thought we had got rid of
Looking for volunteers to go to Clacton to canvas for count binface, and make fro face have to fight for his political life. Any one interested spread the word.