Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate her Department has made of the number of illegal or non-compliant vehicle number plates that have been (a) seized or (b) required to be replaced in each of the last five years.

The Department for Transport does not hold the information requested. On-road enforcement of number plate offences is a matter for the police.

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency is working with the National Police Chiefs’ Council and others to improve the identification and enforcement of number plate crime, including the use of cloned and ghost number plates.