‘Currently the ‘Victims’ Surcharge’ is
only handed out with more serious fines from the courts, but it will be
added to fixed penalty tickets for offences such as speeding and other
parking misdemeanours, according to a Parliamentary answer.
Ministers said that they plan to extend
the victim surcharge to fixed-penalty notices and ‘road traffic
offences’, an idea first considered by Jack Straw, the Justice
Secretary in April last year. This would mean the minimum £60
fine for speeding would rise to £75.’
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