Embassies have clocked up £110m Congestion Charge debt

Foreign embassies based in London owe almost £110m in unpaid Congestion Charge penalties. The £109,955,525 debt stretches back to the road user charging scheme’s launch in 2003.

Some embassies incur PCNs on diplomatic vehicles because they define the congestion charge as a local tax, from which they are exempt.

Transport for London (TfL), which operates the Congestion Charge, disagrees with this definition.

“We and the UK government are clear that the Congestion...

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