Written Question·Home Office·UIN 43129
Police: Automatic Number Plate Recognition
Tabled: 1 April 2025
Answered: 14 April 2025
Named DayQuestion
Sarah Coombes
Labour — West Bromwich
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of recent trends in levels of police (a) time and (b) resources used to investigate Automatic Number Plate Recognition camera mis-reads.
Answer
Dame Diana JohnsonA total of £85.45 million has been provided for maintaining and improving national Automatic Number Plate Recognition systems in the last three years.
ANPR technology is used for law enforcement purposes, to help detect, deter and disrupt criminality at a local, force, regional and national level.