PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Parking Offences: Automatic Number Plate Recognition (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.

Asked by:
Jayne Kirkham (Labour)

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.

Answered by:
Alex Norris (Labour)
7 October 2024