BPA tells lies to Government - here is the proof!

bargepole

In the lead up to the Protection of Freedoms Act (2012), the Government carried out an impact assessment. During this, the BPA claimed that, of the 1.8 million private parking tickets issued annually, some 36,000 ended up as County Court Claims. They therefore persuaded the honourable members that the introduction of Schedule 4, Clause 56, would have the impact of reducing the number of court cases.

I've now had an answer back from the Ministry of Justice, following an FoI request, and these are their figures for 01/01/2011 - 31/12/2011:

Number of Money Claims issued by AOS scheme members = 845

Number of those which proceeded to a hearing in front of a Judge = 49

Number of above resulting in award to Claimant = 24

(These figures may be a slight undercount due to issues with typographical errors by individual Court staff, but are broadly correct, allowing for the fact that some may not relate to parking issues)

So: We can accurately calculate percentages as follows:-

Chances of a PPC ticket resulting in a Court Claim = 845/1.8m = 0.047%

Chances of actually going to Court = 49/1.8m = 0.0027%

Chances of losing in Court = 0.0013%

Keep on ignoring!

fil_cad

The filthy scammers! spread the word everyone and help save many poor people of there scarce hard earned money.

Stephen_Leak

But 845 is less than 36,000. See it's working already, and it hasn't even been introduced.

And, of course, according to our mysterious recent visitor, it won't include all the cases that the judge hasn't told the MOJ about.

keystone

Stephen_Leak wrote: »

But 845 is less than 3,600.

and an awful lot less than 36,000.

Cheers

ripped_off_driver

Very well done on getting this invaluable information.

So the odds of being taken to court by a private parking company are more than 2130 to 1. A horse with three legs in the grand national would have better odds than this.

And the actual number of cases taken to court is less than 2.35% of that reported to the Ministry by the BPA.

A shocking lie by people who do not seem to have any morals. Shame on them.

vax2002

Surely we should bring this to the attention of our MP's who will be voting on this issue.
can we get a picture of the FOI request ?
So we can copy it and write to our MP's pointing out the misleading information they have been presented with ?

Stephen_Leak

keystone wrote: »

and an awful lot less than 36,000.

Cheers

Oops. Corrected.

ripped_off_driver wrote: »

<snip> A shocking lie [STRIKE]by[/STRIKE] to people who do not seem to have any morals. Shame on them.

Fixed for you.

fivegoldstars

Not that I want to be a party-pooper, but there is an important variable missing from those calculations, which makes the 'odds' understated...

peter_the_piper

vax2002 wrote: »

Surely we should bring this to the attention of our MP's who will be voting on this issue.
can we get a picture of the FOI request ?
So we can copy it and write to our MP's pointing out the misleading information they have been presented with ?

Horses and stable doors i'm afraid.:rotfl:

notts_phil

So the BPA are liars then......

What a surprise

A big lie to

vax2002

Is information laid before a parliamentary committee on oath To the Queen ?
An act of treason to lie ?