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Vehicle Number Plates: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to review the regulatory framework for vehicle number plate suppliers to tackle (a) the production of ghost plates and (b) number plate cloning.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
12 Nov 2025
Target answer date
17 Nov 2025
Answer
17 Nov 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 12 Nov 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to review the regulatory framework for vehicle number plate suppliers to tackle (a) the production of ghost plates and (b) number plate cloning.

  2. 17 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 17 Nov 2025

    Answer published

    The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) is working with the National Police Chiefs’ Council and other government departments to improve the identification and enforcement of number plate crime, including the use of cloned number plates. It is alrea...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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