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(asked on 16th March 2026) - View Source
Questioner
Anneliese Midgley Portrait
Anneliese Midgley
(Labour - Knowsley)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many illegal waste sites have been identified in each region of England.

Answered by
Mary Creagh Portrait
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 found per calendar year split by Environment Agency area:

NB: This data is taken from a live system and maybe subject to change as investigation details are updated.

Environment Agency Area

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

Total

Cumbria and Lancashire

40

34

57

48

47

226

Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire

39

22

6

57

22

146

Yorkshire

45

41

59

79

33

257

East Midlands

50

51

36

147

202

486

North East

23

20

13

58

43

157

Hertfordshire and North London

24

2

9

53

40

128

Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire

55

44

85

49

25

258

Solent and South Downs

40

18

29

57

34

178

West Midlands

67

51

71

105

74

368

Kent, South London and East Sussex

41

45

64

48

95

293

Thames

21

16

13

22

16

88

Wessex

39

20

16

56

63

194

Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly

55

62

53

63

73

306

East Anglia

44

78

54

50

56

282

Total

583

504

565

892

823

3,367

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