United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 101218
Vehicle Number Plates: Fraud
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17 December 2025
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5 January 2026 · Answer
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5 January 2026
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of Automatic Number Plate Recognition systems in detecting vehicles using (a) cloned or (b) ghost number plates.
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17 December 2025
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of Automatic Number Plate Recognition systems in detecting vehicles using (a) cloned or (b) ghost number plates.
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5 January 2026
Answer
The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) is working with the National Police Chiefs’ Council and other government departments to improve the identification and enforcement of number plate crime. Officials are considering options to ensure more robus...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-12-17/101218
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1865510
- uk · wq-1865510 · source updated 5 January 2026