Drivers Clobbered: Fines Could Rocket to Fill Massive Gap in Ministers' Spending Pplans

Motorists face being hit by a massive increase in fines to plug a black hole in the coalition’s spending commitments.

Officials want to raise the controversial Victims’ Surcharge, which is added to court fines for speeding and other minor offences, from £15 to as much as £30.

They are also forging ahead with Labour’s widely criticised plan – which Tory MPs had expected the new Government to axe – to levy the charge on parking tickets and other fixed penalty notice offences which do not even reach court.

This ‘double whammy’ would increase the cost of a parking ticket by 50 per cent, from £60 to £90.'

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