Question follow-through · 2394
Vehicle Number Plates
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to prohibit the manufacture, sale and fitting of flip plates and similar devices allowing vehicle registratio
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 18 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 20 May 2026
- Answer
- 29 May 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to prohibit the manufacture, sale and fitting of flip plates and similar devices allowing vehicle registratio
20 May 2026
Target answer date
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29 May 2026
Answer published
The law states that number plates must be displayed vertically and must be easily distinguishable in normal daylight conditions. It is an offence to either obscure a vehicle registration number or fail to display a number plate in accordance with the lega...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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