Question follow-through · 43744
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 victims of theft whose cars have been stolen for the cost of holding or releasing those vehicles.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 2 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 11 Apr 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Apr 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 victims of theft whose cars have been stolen for the cost of holding or releasing those vehicles.
7 Apr 2025
Target answer date
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11 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (RTRA) empowers the police to remove vehicles that are dangerously, illegally, or obstructively parked, or broken down or abandoned, which includes vehicles abandoned after theft.Removals and storage entail a cost, whi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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