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Cars: Hire Services

Commons · Question 106846 · Tabled 19 Jan 2026 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record

Answered 22 Jan 2026

Question

Asked by Vikki Slade

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of requiring car hire companies to capture and store digitally timestamped (a) photographic and (b) video evidence of a vehicle’s condition both at c

Answer

Answered by Kate Dearden, 22 Jan 2026

The Competition and Markets Authority published guidance in 2018 to support car rental companies to comply with consumer law. The department does not intend to impose specific obligations on car rental companies regarding how they monitor the vehicle's co...