Prosecutions for parking tickets

Summary

The requester asked the General Registry for statistics on prosecutions, convictions, fines, and acquittals related to non-payment of DOI parking tickets between 2019 and 2024. The authority responded that the answer to all questions was zero, indicating no such prosecutions occurred during the specified period.

Key Facts

• The request was received on 2025-07-10 and responded to on 2025-07-14.
• The Department of Infrastructure (DOI) previously referred the request to the General Registry as they did not hold the information.
• The General Registry confirmed there were zero prosecutions for non-payment of DOI parking tickets in 2024.
• There were zero prosecutions for non-payment of DOI parking tickets in each year from 2019 to 2023.
• Consequently, there were zero convictions, zero fines imposed, and zero acquittals or discontinuances for these specific offenses.

Data Disclosed

• Zero
• 2024
• 2019 to 2023
• 2025-07-10
• 2025-07-14
• 30.5.25
• 4787753

Original Request

Dear Sir/Madam Please can you confirm the following: 1. How many prosecutions in Court (summons issued) were there in 2024 for non-payment of DOI parking tickets? 2. How many of such prosecutions were there in each year 2019 to 2023? 3. How many of such prosecutions resulted in convictions and what were the total fines imposed at sentencing following such convictions? 4. How many of such prosecutions resulted in acquittals or discontinuance? Please note that these questions have been put to the DOI under a FOI request dated 30.5.25 but the DOI responded that it did not hold this information and referred us to the General Registry for the answers. We therefore expect substantive responses from the General Registry. Thank you.

Data Tables (1)

Full Response Text

General Registry Oik- Recortyssee Chief Registrar
Stuart Quayle

Isle of Man Courts of Justice Deemsters Walk, Bucks Road Douglas, Isle of Man IM1 3AR

Telephone:
(01624) 685979 Email:
DPO- GenReg@gov.im

Our ref: 4787753 14 July 2025

Dear #####

We write further to your request, received 10 July 2025, which states:

"Dear Sir/Madam
Please can you confirm the following:
1. How many prosecutions in Court (summons issued) were there in 2024 for non- payment of DOI parking tickets?
2. How many of such prosecutions were there in each year 2019 to 2023?
3. How many of such prosecutions resulted in convictions and what were the total fines imposed at sentencing following such convictions?
4. How many of such prosecutions resulted in acquittals or discontinuance?
Please note that these questions have been put to the DOI under a FOI request dated 30.5.25 but the DOI responded that it did not hold this information and referred us to the General Registry for the answers. We therefore expect substantive responses from the General Registry.
Thank you."

Our response to your request is as follows:

“Zero” for all questions 1 to 4 above.

Please quote the reference number 4787753 in any future communications.

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I will now close your request as of this date.

Yours sincerely

FOI Co-ordinator