Vehicle Number Plates: Fraud

(asked on 13th September 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Government is taking to encourage traffic enforcement teams to check with the DVLA vehicle enquiry service before issuing penalty notices in order to avoid problems caused by potential vehicle license plate cloning.


Answered by
Jesse Norman Portrait
Jesse Norman
This question was answered on 15th October 2018

The purpose of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency’s (DVLA) Vehicle Enquiry Service is to provide some details about the vehicle being checked, for example its licensing status.

The DVLA already has existing secure data sharing arrangements in place which are used by the police and local authorities for enforcement purposes.

If the registered keeper of a vehicle suspects that their number plate has been cloned, they should contact the police and the authority that issued any disputed penalty notice for investigations to be carried out. The DVLA is also able to issue a new registration number where appropriate.

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