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Vehicle Number Plates: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency has made of whether there are (a) regional and (b) other geographic trends in the number of suspected cloned number plate reports between 2020 and 2024.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
10 Oct 2025
Target answer date
14 Oct 2025
Answer
20 Oct 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency has made of whether there are (a) regional and (b) other geographic trends in the number of suspected cloned number plate reports between 2020 and 2024.

  2. 14 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 20 Oct 2025

    Answer published

    It is an offence to use a vehicle displaying cloned number plates which is punishable by an unlimited fine and/or up to two years in prison. The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) is working with the National Police Chiefs’ Council and other gover...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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