Question follow-through · 38714
Vehicle Number Plates: Automatic Number Plate Recognition
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what number and proportion of vehicle number plates were unreadable by automatic number plate recognition cameras in each of the last three years.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 17 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 20 Mar 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what number and proportion of vehicle number plates were unreadable by automatic number plate recognition cameras in each of the last three years.
20 Mar 2025
Target answer date
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20 Mar 2025
Answer published
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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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