Question follow-through · 59524
Vehicle Number Plates: Fraud
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps she has taken to (a) prevent vehicle number plate cloning and (b) support victims.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 12 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 18 Jun 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps she has taken to (a) prevent vehicle number plate cloning and (b) support victims.
16 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Jun 2025
Answer published
The cloning and use of false number plates is a serious issue and the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency is working with the police and others to improve the identification and enforcement of number plate crime. The law requires anyone who supplies numbe...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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