Currently the 'Victims' Surcharge' is only handed out with more serious fines from the courts, but it will be added to fixed penalty tickets for offences such as speeding and other parking misdemeanours, according to a Parliamentary answer.
Ministers said that they plan to extend the victim surcharge to fixed-penalty notices and 'road traffic offences', an idea first considered by Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary in April last year. This would mean the minimum £60 fine for speeding would rise to £75.'
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