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Vehicle Number Plates: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many incidents of vehicle licence plate cloning were reported in each of the last five years.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
9 Sept 2025
Target answer date
11 Sept 2025
Answer
17 Sept 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 9 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many incidents of vehicle licence plate cloning were reported in each of the last five years.

  2. 11 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 17 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    The table below shows the number of occasions where members of the public have contacted the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) about correspondence, fines or penalties that they have received from third parties about the use of vehicles which the...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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