Question follow-through · 17350
Local Government: Parking
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing local authorities to use automatic number plate recognition for car park management.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 2 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 4 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 12 Dec 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing local authorities to use automatic number plate recognition for car park management.
4 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Dec 2024
Answer published
Local Authorities are allowed to use ANPR and associated recording equipment for enforcing both on and off-street parking contraventions. However, the use of ANPR by Local Authorities as the sole means for enforcing parking contraventions is forbidden und...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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