Fly-tipping

(asked on 6th January 2023) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to tackle fly-tipping.


Answered by
Rebecca Pow Portrait
Rebecca Pow
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 20th January 2023

Defra officials continue to take steps to tackle fly-tipping, including working with other Government departments such as the Ministry of Justice with whom we liaised to develop the first part of the fly-tipping toolkit on how local authorities can present robust cases to court. This guide can be found on the website of the National Fly-tipping Prevention Group (NFTPG).

Defra chairs the NFTPG which brings together a range of stakeholders, including officials from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and the Devolved Administrations, to promote and disseminate best practice to prevent fly-tipping.

In 2022, we also provided capital funding of £450,000 through our fly-tipping intervention grant to enable several councils to implement a range of measures to tackle fly-tipping.

We have also consulted on the introduction of mandatory digital waste tracking. This proposes that all relevant waste holders will be required to digitally record details about the waste they manage. This will allow the Environment Agency to detect waste that does not reach the next stage and likely reduce the scope for illegal activity such as fly-tipping.

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