Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to increase the availability the Automatic Numberplate Recognition Camera to Road Safety Partnerships to tackle the incidence of speeding.

There are no current plans to increase the availability of Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) camera technology to Road Safety Partnerships to tackle speeding.

The development of ANPR systems is governed by the National ANPR Standards for policing (NASP). Part 2 of the NASP states each camera installation has to be in response to a pressing policing need and supported by a privacy impact assessment to ensure camera locations are justified.

Only specifically configured and type-approved cameras may be used for speed enforcement in court. Cameras currently within the National ANPR Infrastructure (NAI) are not type-approved for speed enforcement and the purposes of the NAI do not currently include speed enforcement.