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Wardens told: go soft on drivers

Robert Booth
Sunday 16 April 2006 00:20 BST
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In an acknowledgment that drivers' complaints about parking enforcement "may be merited", Alistair Darling, the Secretary of State for Transport, has written to MPs on the Transport Select Committee criticising over-zealous practices.

The 20-page memo, which emerged last night, also says there is little information about where revenues from parking penalties, which passed £1bn in 2003-04, end up and that this can lead to the impression that local authorities are only policing parking as a money-making exercise.

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