The Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion has re­fused a Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion re­quest that would have clear­ly ex­plained which traf­fic of­fences now car­ry high­er fines, de­spite grow­ing pub­lic con­fu­sion over the re­cent changes.

The re­quest asked the min­istry to pro­vide one clear, con­sol­i­dat­ed list show­ing each of­fence, the old fine, the new fine and the le­gal ref­er­ence, so mo­torists would not have to search through mul­ti­ple le­gal no­tices to un­der­stand what now ap­plies.

In­stead, the min­istry replied yes­ter­day that the in­for­ma­tion was al­ready pub­licly avail­able, re­ly­ing on sec­tion 12(c) of the Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion Act.