Fly-tipping

(asked on 23rd October 2017) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he will appoint a national fly-tipping tsar with responsibility for co-ordinating with national agencies on tackling serious organised criminal gangs, monitoring and reporting on the scale of the problem across public and private land and benchmarking enforcement performance across all relevant agencies.


Answered by
Thérèse Coffey Portrait
Thérèse Coffey
This question was answered on 26th October 2017

Tackling fly-tipping is a Government priority. We recently introduced fixed penalty notices of up to £400 for small-scale fly-tipping to give local authorities an alternative to prosecutions and enable them to take a more proportionate enforcement response. We have also enhanced local authorities’ and the Environment Agency’s ability to search and seize vehicles of suspected fly-tippers and cracked down on offenders by strengthening the Sentencing Council’s Guideline for fly-tipping offences.

As part of our waste and resource strategy, we are developing further proposals to tackle fly-tipping. We will enhance partnership working and intelligence sharing between Government agencies and local landowners. Through the National Fly-Tipping Prevention Group we are also working to improve reporting of fly-tipping on private land to better target enforcement, and support local authorities and the Environment Agency to investigate fly-tipping incidents on private land.

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