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...