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Tony Baldry welcomes new curbs on wheel clampers

29 January 2010

North Oxfordshire MP Tony Baldry has recently been campaigning for much tougher controls on wheel clampers.

He recently spoke in a Parliamentary debate, describing wheel clamping as very often little better than state approved extortion and expressed concern that government proposals to deal with wheel clampers didn’t go anywhere near far enough.

These concerns have been raised again by Tony Baldry during the first week of the Crime and Security Bill’s consideration in Committee in the Commons and the government appear to have listened in that they have made it clear that motorists are soon going to be able challenge unfair practices by wheel clamping firms at independent tribunals, that the fees for wheel clamping are going to be capped, and a whole number of other controls are going to be introduced to bear down on irresponsible wheel clamping.

"I welcome the fact that the government are moving in the right direction", said Tony Baldry, "they appear to have listened to the concerns of myself and other MPs that these controls needed to be made much more obvious. Obviously we will still need to consider the detail of what the government proposes in Committee, but it is clear that the recognise that rogue wheel clampers have become a real menace, and need to be curbed."