House of Lords written question – answered at on 10 January 2006.
Lord Biffen
Conservative
asked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they will review the funding arrangements, objectives, organisation and conduct of the National Parking Adjudication Service; and
Whether they will arrange for investigations into the behaviour of National Parking Adjudication Service officials to be held in public.
Lord Davies of Oldham
Deputy Chief Whip (House of Lords), HM Household, Captain of the Queen's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard (HM Household) (Deputy Chief Whip, House of Lords)
The Road Traffic Act 1991, as subsequently amended by statutory instruments for application outside London, provides for a joint committee of local authorities with decriminalised parking enforcement power to be established. The joint committee is responsible for the funding arrangements, objectives, organisation and conduct of the National Parking Adjudication Service and its officials.
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