Question follow-through · 43128
Vehicle Number Plates: Fraud
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking with National Trading Standards to tackle the sale of ghost number plates.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 1 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 7 Apr 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking with National Trading Standards to tackle the sale of ghost number plates.
7 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Apr 2025
Answer published
National Trading Standards (NTS) are working with the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA), local authorities and the police to address the supply and use of modified number plates. The evidence gather...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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