Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons victims of crime are required to pay for the police to take their cars for forensic examination by the police service after a car has been stolen; and why that cost is not met by the police service.

Whilst the police are empowered to charge vehicle owners prescribed sums for the recovery, storage, and disposal of their vehicles; victims of crime are not charged storage costs whilst vehicles are undergoing forensics examinations or for the cost for forensic examinations following the recovery of stolen vehicles.