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Vehicle Number Plates: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many illegal license plates have been seized by the police in each of the last five years.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
11 Oct 2024
Target answer date
15 Oct 2024
Answer
21 Oct 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 11 Oct 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many illegal license plates have been seized by the police in each of the last five years.

  2. 15 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 21 Oct 2024

    Answer published

    The Government is working closely with the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) and the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) to improve the identification and enforcement of number plate crime.We do not hold information centrally on illegal licence...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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