English council parking and bus lane enforcement finance, 2024-25

What every English civil parking enforcement authority told the Ministry
of Housing, Communities & Local Government it took and spent on on-street
parking, off-street parking and bus lane enforcement in the 2024-25
financial year, from each authority's own Revenue Outturn (RO2) return.

343 of 347 authorities have figures; the remaining 4 are joint
partnerships or delegated arrangements that file no return of their own,
stated as such rather than left blank. 316 of the 343 returns were
certified by MHCLG's cut-off.

Across the 343 authorities with figures, income from on-street and
off-street parking exceeded spending by £1.19 billion in 2024-25. Bus lane
enforcement income exceeded spending by a further £39.8 million across the
65 authorities that reported bus lane figures separately.

This is NOT the section 55 parking account that each authority is required
to keep under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, whose "surplus" has its
own statutory definition and permitted uses. Section 55 requires the
account to be kept, not published in any common format, and no complete,
comparable, England-wide collection of it exists. RO2 is the same
authorities' own figures for the same activity, collected on one form with
one set of definitions, published as an official statistic - comparable,
dated, and traceable to a row a reader can check, which the section 55
accounts are not.

No figure here is derived, modelled or estimated beyond simple addition
(net = expenditure - income, printed exactly as the source's own column
formula). Where a figure is not published or fails the sheet's own internal
consistency check, the cell reads "not published" rather than zero.

England only. Wales reports the equivalent through a separate, incompatible
return; Scotland has no register of enforcement authorities this dataset
could be built from.