PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(15 April 2026)

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what data his Department holds on the number of private parking charge notices issued annually in England; and what assessment he has made of trends in those figures over the last five years.

Asked by:
Alison Griffiths (Conservative)

The government uses publicly available DVLA Keeper at Data of Event Enquiry (KADOE) data as a proxy for the number of private parking charges issued annually.

The following requests were made for car park management purposes.

Year	KADOE Requests (M)
2018/19	6,905,359
2019/20	8,557,085
2020/21	4,507,308
2021/22	8,564,762
2022/23	11,052,986
2023/24	12,772,339
2024/25	14,381,119

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