Motor Vehicles: Theft
(asked on 21st February 2018) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police forces do not charge victims of vehicle theft to retrieve their stolen vehicles.
Statutorily prescribed charges for the recovery and storage of stolen vehicles are set out in the Removal, Storage and Disposal of Vehicles (Prescribed Sums and Charges) Regulations 2008. The current table of charges set in 2008 is shown below.
Data on the number of motorists charged and the amounts paid is not routinely collected by the Home Office.
TABLES OF CHARGES
As set in the Removal, Storage and Disposal of Vehicles (Prescribed Sums and Charges) Regulations 2008
Removals
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
1 | Vehicle position and condition | Vehicle equal to or less than 3.5 tonnes Maximum Authorised Mass (MAM) | Vehicle exceeding 3.5 tonnes MAM but equal to or less than 7.5 tonnes | Vehicle exceeding 7.5 tonnes MAM but equal to or less than 18 MAM | Vehicle exceeding 18 tonnes MAM |
2 | Vehicle on road, upright and not substantially damaged or any two wheeled vehicle whatever its condition or position on or off the road | £150 | £200 | £350 | £350 |
3 | Vehicle, excluding a two wheeled vehicle, on road but either not upright or substantially damaged or both | £250 | £650 | Unladen-£2000 | Unladen-£3000 |
Laden-£3000 | Laden-£4500 | ||||
4 | Vehicle, excluding a two wheeled vehicle, off road, upright and not substantially damaged | £200 | £400 | Unladen-£1000 | Unladen-£1500 |
Laden-£1500 | Laden-£2000 | ||||
5 | Vehicle, excluding a two wheeled vehicle, off road but either not upright or substantially damaged or both | £300 | £850 | Unladen-£3000 | Unladen-£4500 |
Laden-£4500 | Laden-£6000 |
Storage (for each period of 24 hours or part thereof)
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
1 | Two wheeled vehicle | Vehicle, not including a two wheeled vehicle, equal to or less than 3.5 tonnes MAM | Vehicle exceeding 3.5 tonnes MAM but equal to or less than 7.5 tonnes MAM | Vehicle exceeding 7.5 tonnes MAM but equal to or less than 18 MAM | Vehicle exceeding 18 tonnes MAM |
2 | £10 | £20 | £25 | £30 | £35 |