Written Question·Home Office·UIN 38712

Vehicle Number Plates: Fraud

Tabled: 17 March 2025
Answered: 20 March 2025
Named Day

Question

Sarah Coombes

LabourWest Bromwich

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the use of modified number plates designed to evade detection by automatic number plate recognition cameras on levels of crime.

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson
The cloning and defacing of number plates is illegal. We are working with the police, the DVLA and other partners to crack down on these crimes.We have begun work on a new Road Safety Strategy, the first in over a decade, which aims to reduce road deaths ...

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