“In times of immense pressures on public sector finances, it is imperative that every effort is made to collect money due to the public purse.
When laws are in place, traffic wardens employed and tickets issued, DfI should make every effort to collect the debt that is owed.
It is unfair to those who pay their penalties to see that over 11,000 penalty tickets worth £1.3 million were written off in the past financial year.”