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Vehicle Number Plates: Automatic Number Plate Recognition

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an estimate of the number of ghost plates in circulation.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
24 Mar 2025
Target answer date
27 Mar 2025
Answer
27 Mar 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 24 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an estimate of the number of ghost plates in circulation.

  2. 27 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 27 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency is working with the National Police Chiefs’ Council, various police forces and Trading Standards in relation to the supply and use of illegal number plates as well as number plates with raised characters, commonly k...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

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Road Traffic Offences: Convictions

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Driving: Disqualification

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