Written Question·Home Office·UIN 43744
Police: Fees and Charges
Tabled: 2 April 2025
Answered: 11 April 2025
Question
Mike Tapp
Labour — Dover and Deal
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to prevent the police from charging victims of theft whose cars have been stolen for the cost of holding or releasing those vehicles.
Answer
Dame Diana JohnsonThe Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (RTRA) empowers the police to remove vehicles that are dangerously, illegally, or obstructively parked, or broken down or abandoned, which includes vehicles abandoned after theft.Removals and storage entail a cost, whi...
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