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Vehicle Number Plates: Automatic Number Plate Recognition

Asked by Sarah CoombesLabourHome OfficeTabled Answered 20 March 2025UIN 38714

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what number and proportion of vehicle number plates were unreadable by automatic number plate recognition cameras in each of the last three years.

Answered by Dame Diana Johnson

Data on the readability of ANPR reads is not collected or published.

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