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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an estimate of the annual cost to local authorities of clearing fly tipping in (a) Yeovil constituency and (b) other rural areas.

No estimate is available for the annual cost of clearing fly tipping in the Yeovil constituency or other rural areas.

Total clearance costs for all fly-tipping incidents are not available. Defra only publish cost data for clearance costs for ‘tipper lorry load’ and ‘significant/multi load’ incident categories, which are reported directly by local authorities.

This information is available in the local authority level dataset: Fly-tipping statistics for England - GOV.UK

This cost data is available at local authority, regional and national levels, but not at constituency level.