Asked by: Lord Swire (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prosecutions there have been in each of the last 10 years for improperly displayed vehicle number plates.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
The number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates' courts for offences under sections 42 and 59 of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 in each year between 2011 and 2015 can be viewed in the table. From centrally collated data, it has only been possible to separately identify offences under individual sections of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act from 2011 onwards.