Sarah Coombes MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Automatic Number Plate RecognitionHome OfficeTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43130More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding her Department has provided for improving Automatic Number Plate Recognition systems in the last three years.
Answer: A 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 ...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice: Automatic Number Plate RecognitionHome OfficeTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43129More
Question: 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 camer
Answer: A 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 ...
Answered 14 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordVehicle Number Plates: FraudHome OfficeTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39167More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of vehicle number plate cloning offences in the last five years.
Answer: The Home Office does not hold information on the number of vehicle number plate cloning offences recorded by the police in England and Wales as this is included within the offence sub-code of ‘Fraud and forgery associated with registration and licensing d...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAutomatic Number Plate RecognitionHome OfficeTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39166More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the Automatic Number Plate Recognition camera system.
Answer: ANPR is a valuable tool to help the police tackle crime and keep the road safe.We keep the effectiveness of police and law enforcement use of ANPR under regular review, to ensure it remains a robust tool for identifying vehicles of interest to the police ...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordVehicle Number Plates: Automatic Number Plate RecognitionHome OfficeTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38714More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what number and proportion of vehicle number plates were unreadable by automatic number plate recognition cameras in each of the last three years.
Answer: Data on the readability of ANPR reads is not collected or published.
Answered 20 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordVehicle Number Plates: RegistrationHome OfficeTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38713More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many fixed penalty notices were issued for vehicle registration offences in each of the last three years.
Answer: The Home Office collects and publishes data on fixed penalty notices and other outcomes for motoring offences as part of its annual ‘Police Powers and Procedures: Roads policing’ statistical release. The latest data is available here Police powers and pro...
Answered 20 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordVehicle Number Plates: FraudHome OfficeTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38712More
Question: 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: 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 ...
Answered 20 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDangerous Driving: West BromwichHome OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20315More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle illegal street racing in West Bromwich constituency.
Answer: Any form of anti-social, dangerous or inconsiderate behaviour involving any vehicle is a serious issue. Tackling anti-social behaviour is a top priority for the Government, and a key part of the Safer Streets Mission.Excess speed is a major cause of death...
Answered 19 Dec 2024
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