What is a "penalty for a driving offence?"
The new UK visa application form asks if the applicant has a penalty for a driving offence. Do you have to include parking fines and 'fixed penalty notices?' How is one expected to remember thess?
There seems to be a difference between Fixed Penalty Notices and Penalty Charge Notices. Do both have to be declared? They require you declare driving offences. Is a parking ticket a driving offense?
https://www.gov.uk/parking-tickets/paying-a-ticket
There are three options on the application form: What was your driving offence? (Required)
Disqualification for speeding
No insurance
Something else
Best Answer
From living in the UK I would say no. Driving offences in the UK are for circumstances like speeding, dangerous driving, drink driving etc that gives you penalty points on your licence. Parking tickets do not give you penalty points just a fine issued by the local authority. When we fill out forms for our car insurance we do not state if we have parking fines just driving offences like the ones i stated above and how many penalty points we have on our licence. I would not list your parking offences down as this isn't a personal offence. Your mother could be driving your car and get the parking ticket, but when issuing the ticket the parking officer doesn't know who parked the car so the ticket is for the car owner not necessarily the one who caused the offence.
here is a list of driving offences that get you points in the UK, note parking offences aren't on here
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