Question follow-through · 7938
Parking: Automatic Number Plate Recognition
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will take steps to permit Automatic Number Plate Recognition to be used in council car parks.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 8 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 11 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 11 Jun 2026 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will take steps to permit Automatic Number Plate Recognition to be used in council car parks.
11 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Jun 2026
Answer published
The department has no current plans to alter how local authorities can use Automatic Number Plate Recognition for enforcement purposes in England and Wales but will keep this position under review.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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