In message , Bruce
writes
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:01:01 -0500,
wrote:
Evidence that the fines ever went to local government coffers?
All the "evidence" anyone should need is the bleating of local
authorities ever since they were denied the income stream from fines.
They never have had such an income stream. Money from speeding fines has
always gone to central government. All that local authorities (or,
strictly, groups of local authorities) got was the cost of processing
the fines, for which they had to apply to the DfT.
What local authorities are currently bleating about is the change
introduced in 2007, which means that they now can't even claim the cost
of processing fines. Instead they were given a Road Safety Grant, to
spend as they wished on a range of road safety measures, and which has
just been halved in value.
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Paul Terry