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Written Question
Vehicle Number Plates: Fraud
Wednesday 13th March 2024

Asked by: Ruth Cadbury (Labour - Brentford and Isleworth)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle licence plate cloning.

Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

The Department for Transport understands how distressing this criminal activity can be for innocent motorists. The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) is currently working with the National Police Chiefs’ Council and other government departments to improve the identification and enforcement of number plate crime.

The law requires that anyone who supplies number plates for road use in the UK must be registered with the DVLA. It is a legal requirement for suppliers to carry out checks to ensure that number plates are only sold to those who can prove they are entitled to the registration number. Number plate suppliers must also keep records of the plates they have supplied.

The DVLA assist the police and Trading Standards in their enforcement against number plate suppliers who trade illegally. When notified, the DVLA will investigate and pass on intelligence to the police who are responsible for investigating this criminal matter.

Written Question
Western Sahara: Vehicle Number Plates
Wednesday 31st January 2024

Asked by: Grahame Morris (Labour - Easington)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, if he will make representations to his Moroccan counterpart on that country's requiring MINURSO to use Moroccan vehicle number plates in occupied Western Sahara.

Answered by Anne-Marie Trevelyan - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

The UK does not plan to make representations on the issues raised in the Member's question.

Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Department for Transport

Mar. 17 2024

Source Page: Noise camera technology: roadside trial
Document: Work order T0218 roadside vehicle noise measurements: phase 3 part B (PDF)

Found: Vehicle number plates can be identified manual ly from the video file, with vehicle identification

Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Ministry of Defence

Oct. 06 2023

Source Page: FOI responses published by MOD: week commencing 2 October 2023
Document: Reports of illegal or obscured number plates (PDF)

Found: plates and how many times those reports were made to a single vehicle - which could result in the

Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Department for Transport

Nov. 17 2023

Source Page: Taxi and private hire vehicle licensing: best practice
Document: Driver vehicle checklist (PDF)

Found: Taxi and private hire vehicle licensing: best practice

Non-Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency

Mar. 28 2024

Source Page: DVSA Freedom of Information (FOI) disclosure logs, 2023
Document: (webpage)

Found: Successful Access to all datasets under the following: Traffic Commissioners: goods and public service vehicle

Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Dec. 18 2023

Source Page: Abandoned vehicles: local authority responsibilities
Document: Abandoned vehicles: local authority responsibilities (webpage)

Found: Decide if a vehicle is abandoned Authorities must decide if a vehicle is abandoned.

Non-Departmental Publication (Services)
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency

Dec. 06 2023

Source Page: Registration numbers and you (INF46)
Document: Registration numbers and you (INF46) (webpage)

Found: From: Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency Published 12 April 2011 Last updated 6 December

Deposited Papers
Northern Ireland Office

Feb. 08 2011

Source Page: Table showing British Army personnel convicted of offences while on active service in Northern Ireland for the period 1986 to 2006 (no data available for 1987). 309 p.
Document: DEP2011-0229.xls (Excel)

Found: NO “L” PLATES DISPLAYED3.       

Secondary Legislation

Laid - 15 Feb 2024 In Force Not stated

Road Vehicles (Type-Approval) (Amendment) Regulations 2024
Department: Department for Transport
Made negative
Parliamentary Status - Legislation

These Regulations amend Regulation (EU) 2018/858, Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/683 and Commission Regulation (EU)1003/2010.

Found: substitute “Instead of the upper-case letter ‘E’, the lower-case letter ‘g’ shall be used, followed by the number