Blue Badge Offences and Misuse

How many fake blue badge offences are recorded, by year if available?

Devon County Council (DCC) do not hold this information, because we are not an enforcing local authority for blue badge offences.

How many blue badge misuse offences recorded (i.e. use by individuals other than those to whom the badge was assigned; by year if available)?

Devon County Council (DCC) do not hold this information, because we are not an enforcing local authority for blue badge offences.

How many parking offences recorded, where a blue badge was required but not possessed (by year if available)?

01/01/2019 to 31/12/2019: 2050 Parking Charge Notices’ (PCN’s) issued

01/01/2020 to 31/12/2020: 1512 PCN’s issued

01/01/2021 to 31/12/2021: 1691 PCN’s issued

01/01/2022 to 31/01/2022: 173 PCN’s issued

Please provide, by year, financial or quantitative data on fines issued in relation to blue badge offences

01/01/2019 to 31/12/2019: 1495 cases paid = £64,579.00.

01/01/2020 to 31/12/2020: 1061 cases paid to date = £47,037.37

01/01/2021 to 31/12/2021: 1094 cases paid to date = £44,829.16

01/01/2022 to 31/01/2022: 81 cases paid to date = £2,835.00

Number of reported blue badge misuses (by year if available)

Any additional data relating to blue badge misuse or offences

In 2019 a different system for recording feedback (including blue badge misuse) was introduced at Devon County Council and information recorded on the old system is no longer accessible. As such, we are only able to provide the data from 2019 onwards