Written questions

Vehicle Number Plates: Fraud

Commons · Question 76083 · Tabled 9 Sep 2025 · Department for Transport · Official record

Answered 17 Sep 2025

Question

Asked by Andrew Snowden

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to (a) detect and (b) reduce the use of ghost number plates designed to evade Automatic Number Plate Recognition systems.

Answer

Answered by Simon Lightwood, 17 Sep 2025

The table below shows the number of occasions where members of the public have contacted the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) about correspondence, fines or penalties that they have received from third parties about the use of vehicles which the...