Question follow-through · 99652
Vehicle Number Plates: Fraud
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate the Government has made of the financial losses suffered by businesses as a result of vehicles using obscured or false number plates to commit fuel theft or evade charges.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 12 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 19 Dec 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate the Government has made of the financial losses suffered by businesses as a result of vehicles using obscured or false number plates to commit fuel theft or evade charges.
16 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Dec 2025
Answer published
No assessment of potential financial losses as a result of vehicles using obscured or false number plates has been made. The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) is working with the National Police Chiefs’ Council and other government departments to...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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