Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of vehicle number plate cloning offences in the last five years.

The Home Office does not hold information on the number of vehicle number plate cloning offences recorded by the police in England and Wales as this is included within the offence sub-code of ‘Fraud and forgery associated with registration and licensing documents’ offences.

The table shows the total number of such offences recorded, from 2019/20 to the year ending September 2024.

Table: the number of ‘Fraud, forgery etc. associated with registration and licensing documents’ offences recorded by the police in England and Wales¹, 2019/20 to the year ending September 2024.

1. Humberside police are excluded from all years, as they have been unable to provide data to the Home Office Data Hub

2. 2019/20 excludes Greater Manchester police, who were unable to provide data to the Home Office Data Hub for this period.