Personalised Number Plates

[Rudolf Hart]

I have just been informed by my niece that she has lost her personalised plate.
Apparently, it only lasts for a few years if not assigned to a vehicle.
She missed out by a month or two, due to the reminders going to an old address.
Apparently, she can't have it, nobody else can have it, it's gone, forever.
How much revenue would be raised if people could be reunited with their plates?
Or if these thousands of plates returned to the market?
A single parliamentary stroke of the pen would probably raise - well, a lot of money.