Written question asked by Oliver Heald (Conservative) on Thursday, 1 March 2007, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 5 March 2007. It was answered by Tony McNulty (Labour) on Thursday, 15 March 2007 on behalf of the Home Office.

Road Traffic Offences

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to centralise data collected by CCTV at the national Auto Number Plate Recognition Data Centre; and how much he has allocated to facilitate the integration of this data.

Answer: The Government have provided £32.5 million of capital investment between the years 2005 and 2007 to enhance Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) infrastructure at a national, regional and local level. The Home Office is working with colleagues in the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) to use approximately £7 million of this funding to progress the development of a national infrastructure, specifically the National ANPR Data Centre (NADC—due to become fully operational during the 2007-08 financial year), and a Back Office Facility (BOF) system. The NADC will hold data collected by police-operated ANPR-linked to closed circuit television (CCTV) systems. The BOF will provide data storage and analysis tools for all police forces in England and Wales, enabling them to use ANPR in a more effective manner to tackle all levels of criminality.

Secondary information

Type: Written question
Reference: 458 c553W; 125643
Session: 2006-07
Subjects: Databases Road traffic offences Automatic number plate recognition
Link: View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk