Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 22834

Automatic Number Plate Recognition: Pedestrian Areas

Tabled: 8 January 2025
Answered: 13 January 2025
Named Day

Question

Jayne Kirkham

Labour (Co-op)Truro and Falmouth

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of enabling local authorities to apply to use ANPR to enforce designated pedestrian zones.

Answer

Lilian Greenwood
Moving traffic contraventions, including entry into a designated pedestrian zone, may be civilly enforced by designated local authorities using CCTV prescribed by regulations made under the Traffic Management Act 2004.By using these cameras local authorit...

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