TfL Ref: 2528-1819

Thank you for your email received by us on 25 December 2018 asking for information about Congestion Charge Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs).

Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act and our information access policy. I can confirm we hold some of the information you require. You asked for:

a breakdown of Congestion Charge PCNs issued between January 2017 and December 2017 with the following breakdown:
PCNs Issued
> Total number of PCNs issued
> Total number of PCNs issued monthly breakdown

Please see the table below detailing the number of PCNs issued in 2017 on a monthly basis:

2017 
Month PCNs Issued
January 89545
February 81226
March 87236
April 65122
May 74397
June 83111
July 80095
August 82489
September 75349
October 74692
November 76593
December 60481
Total 930336
  

PCNs not Appealed
> Total number of PCNs paid without appeal

526,927.

PCNs Appealed to TfL
> Total number of PCNs appealed to TfL

137,363.

> Total number of PCNs successfully appealed where reason for cancellation was based on one of the options provided on page 3 of the PCN. (Please itemise breakdown and confirm option names as PCN template was revised in Mar 2018)
> Total number of PCNs successfully appealed where reason for cancellation was TfL exercising discretion based on mitigation

71,552 Representations were accepted by TfL. Representation accept reasons are not recorded as per the representation grounds which are detailed on the Penalty Charge Notice. However, the reason the representations were accepted are recorded below:

Discretionary - Tax Class Exempt  2230
Discretionary - Blue Badge Holder Not Registered  6837
Discretionary - Other  2856
Discretionary - Customer Payment Error  24151
Forced / Diverted into the Zone  204
Vehicle on Hire  18140
Not the Keeper on Contravention Date  6983
Ringer Clone  1384
Taxi or Private Hire Vehicle  733
T-Charge First Contravention  481
T-Charge - Other  61
Other  802
Processing Error  6690
Total  71552
 

PCNs Appealed to Adjudicator
> Total number of PCNs appealed to Adjudicator
> Total number of PCNs successfully appealed on one of six statutory grounds (Please itemise breakdown)
> Total number of PCNs failed appeal as appeal did NOT fall within one of six statutory grounds for appeal

Appeals to London Tribunals are recorded by them rather than TfL. Details are available on their website via the following link:

https://www.londontribunals.gov.uk/about/annual-reports-and-appeal-statistics

PCNs Paid
> Total number of number of PCNs paid in payment brackets of £65, £130 and £160 respectively.

We do not record this information.

PCNs Unpaid
> Total number of PCNs unpaid (any reason)

There were 342,121 of such PCNS. Please note this includes PCNs that are not yet due for payment as they have not yet completed the representations and appeals process.

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Yours sincerely

Jasmine Howard
FOI Case Officer
Information Governance
Transport For London