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Automatic Number Plate Recognition

Asked by Sarah CoombesLabourHome OfficeTabled Answered 7 April 2025UIN 43130

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding her Department has provided for improving Automatic Number Plate Recognition systems in the last three years.

Answered by Dame Diana Johnson

A total of £85.45 million has been provided for maintaining and improving national Automatic Number Plate Recognition systems in the last three years.

ANPR technology is used for law enforcement purposes, to help detect, deter and disrupt criminality at a local, force, regional and national level.

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