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, how many enforcement actions the Environment Agency has taken against illegal waste sites in each of the last five years.
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 actions dated within each calendar year for records relating to illegal waste sites.
Prosecution outcomes have been removed as these are provided separately in PQ 121091.
2021: 750
2022: 549
2023: 574
2024: 335
2025: 343
NB: This data is taken from a live system and maybe subject to change as investigation details are updated.