Question follow-through · 22834
Automatic Number Plate Recognition: Pedestrian Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of enabling local authorities to apply to use ANPR to enforce designated pedestrian zones.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 8 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 13 Jan 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of enabling local authorities to apply to use ANPR to enforce designated pedestrian zones.
13 Jan 2025
Target answer date
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13 Jan 2025
Answer published
Moving traffic contraventions, including entry into a designated pedestrian zone, may be civilly enforced by designated local authorities using CCTV prescribed by regulations made under the Traffic Management Act 2004.By using these cameras local authorit...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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