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Parking Offences: Automatic Number Plate Recognition

Question for Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

UIN 5164, tabled on 10 September 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what her planned timetable is for a decision on the use of Automatic Number Plate Recognition technology by local authorities as a parking enforcement tool to tackle non-compliance with parking charges.

Answered on

7 October 2024

Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) technology cannot be used by Councils to enforce parking contraventions once a vehicle has left the car park. A notice of a parking charge from a Council must be given by a civil enforcement officer affixing it too the vehicle. The Government has no plans to review this position.

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