Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, (a) on which motorways and (b) at which locations on those motorways automatic number plate recognition cameras are in use; and what offences such cameras are being used to detect.

Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) technology is used to help detect vehicles suspected of being involved in a broad range of offences, including tackling travelling criminals, organised crime groups and terrorists, and disrupting criminality at a local, force, regional and national level.

The Home Office does not hold the information on which motorways – and at which locations on those motorways – automatic number plate recognition cameras are in use. This is an operational matter for individual Chief Constables