To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what guidance his Department has issued to (a) local authorities and (b) police forces on the use of automated number plate recognition systems to detect parking offences. (284178)

Neither the Home Office nor the National Policing Improvement Agency has issued guidance to (a) local authorities or (b) police forces on the use of automatic number plate recognition systems (ANPR) to detect parking offences.

Following the Road Traffic Act (1991), the majority of parking enforcement is not dealt with by the police. The police operated national ANPR system is not used for parking enforcement.