Question follow-through · 101635
Automatic Number Plate Recognition: Cameras
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of automatic number plate recognition cameras in operation across (a) England and (b) Wales.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 18 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 13 Jan 2026 · 26 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of automatic number plate recognition cameras in operation across (a) England and (b) Wales.
5 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Jan 2026
Answer published
At present UK Law Enforcement Agencies have access to ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) data from 12,076 camera locations in England, Scotland and Wales via the National ANPR Service (NAS).Further cameras will be used by Local Authorities in the U...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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