Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the cost to public purse of sending waste to landfill in each of the last three years.

My department does not estimate the costs to the public purse of sending waste to landfill.

Information for England on the amount of Local Authority collected and managed waste sent to landfill is as follows:

Data on local authority costs of waste disposal, which would include waste to landfill, is published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government in ‘Revenue Outturn Cultural, Environmental, Regulatory and Planning Services (RO5).

Costs for 2016/17 can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing-england-2016-to-2017-individual-local-authority-data-outturn

Costs for 2017/18 can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing-england-2017-to-2018-individual-local-authority-data-outturn

Costs for 2018/19 can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing-england-2018-to-2019-individual-local-authority-data-outturn