Question follow-through · 25570

Automatic Number Plate Recognition: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to roll out automatic number plate recognition cameras in (a) Forest of Dean and (b) other rural constituencies.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
21 Jan 2025
Target answer date
23 Jan 2025
Answer
29 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 21 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to roll out automatic number plate recognition cameras in (a) Forest of Dean and (b) other rural constituencies.

  2. 23 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 29 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    The National ANPR infrastructure is governed by national standards which are available here https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-anpr-standards. Prior to the deployment of ANPR cameras an assessment must identify a need, which could include...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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