Wheel Clamps

Norman Baker
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport under what circumstances the owner of a vehicle may be held liable for a payment to release a wheel clamp where the vehicle in question had been parked by a person other than the owner.

Paul Clark
Few local authorities use immobilisation as part of their parking enforcement activities. If an immobilised vehicle had been parked on the public highway by a person without the keeper’s consent, the keeper would have to pay the release fee but can make representations to the local authority and, if this is refused, can appeal to an adjudicator on this ground.

I understand from the Home Office that if such a vehicle was immobilised on private land, the way that the vehicle keeper was treated would be at the discretion of the immobilisation staff.