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Royal Parks Agency: Finance

Volume 508: debated on Thursday 8 April 2010

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Justine Greening

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport pursuant to the answer of 17 March 2009, Official Report, column 997W, Royal Parks Agency: finance, what revenue has been raised by the Royal Parks Agency in each Royal Park from (a) car park charges, (b) fixed penalty notices, (c) other fines and (d) other revenues in (i) 2008 and (ii) 2009. (323897)

Margaret Hodge

Revenue raised from parking charges, excess charge notices and other revenue during the 2008-09 financial year has been provided by The Royal Parks (TRP) in the following table:

£000

Royal Park

Car parking

Excess charge notices1

Other revenue2

Hyde Park

346

41

3,290

St. James’s Park3

n/a

n/a

1,251

Kensington Gardens3

n/a

n/a

256

The Regent’s Park

815

70

1,564

Greenwich Park

240

34

293

Richmond Park

n/a

n/a

1,045

Bushy Park

n/a

n/a

188

Total

1,401

145

7,887

1 The excess charge figure is also included in the car parking figure

2 These figures exclude grants from agency-wide projects, which are managed centrally.

3 Parking charges are not applicable at these parks because there is no public parking.

There is no charge at present for parking in Richmond or Bushy Parks. TRP does not receive revenue from fixed penalty notices or other fines, but receives revenue from catering and other concessions, from fees for events, permits and licences and from rents. The excess charge notices figure is included in the figures for car parking.