Question follow-through · 43129
Police: Automatic Number Plate Recognition
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of recent trends in levels of police (a) time and (b) resources used to investigate Automatic Number Plate Recognition camer
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 1 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 14 Apr 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of recent trends in levels of police (a) time and (b) resources used to investigate Automatic Number Plate Recognition camer
7 Apr 2025
Target answer date
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14 Apr 2025
Answer published
A total of £85.45 million has been provided for maintaining and improving national Automatic Number Plate Recognition systems in the last three years.ANPR technology is used for law enforcement purposes, to help detect, deter and disrupt criminality at a ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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