Question follow-through · 38322

Police: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to prevent the police from charging people whose cars have been stolen for the cost of holding those vehicles for evidential purposes.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 13 Mar 2025
Target answer date: 17 Mar 2025
Answer: 20 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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13 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to prevent the police from charging people whose cars have been stolen for the cost of holding those vehicles for evidential purposes.
17 Mar 2025
Target answer date
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20 Mar 2025
Answer published
Whilst the police are empowered to charge vehicle owners prescribed sums for the recovery, storage, and disposal of their vehicles, victims of theft are not charged storage costs whilst vehicles are undergoing forensics examinations or for the cost for fo...

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