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Private parking companies issue 14.4m PCNs in single year

RAC says management companies made nearly 4,000 requests a day to the DVLA for vehicle keeper details

Mark Moran
10 July 2025

 

Private parking companies have issued a record 14.4 million tickets to drivers in a single year, says the RAC.

Some 14,371,841 parking charge notices (PCNs) were issued on private land, according to RAC analysis of government data for the year ending March 2025.

Requests to the DVLA from car park management companies for vehicle keeper details show the equivalent of almost 1.2m a month (1,197,653) or nearly 40,000 a day (39,375) were made. 

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