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- Birmingham City Council has paid itself over £470,000 in fines after its vehicles repeatedly breached the Clean Air Zone rules.
- Since 2021, council vehicles have incurred 3,262 charges totalling £472,253, about twenty times higher than any other UK authority with a low-emission scheme, per a Shared Data Unit report.
- As of 31 March, 142 of the council’s 1,170 vehicles (twelve percent) remained non-compliant, with the waste department accounting for most.
