Fly-tipping
(asked on 16th March 2026) - 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 estimate her Department has made of the total number of illegal waste dumps currently operating in the UK.
Answered by
Mary Creagh
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 24th March 2026
Total number of illegal waste sites operating as of 17 March 2026: 537.
NB: This data is taken from a live system and maybe subject to change as investigation details are updated.