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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress he has made on (a) implementing the Resource and Waste Strategy and (b) developing a fly-tipping toolkit.

(a) We publish annual monitoring and evaluation reports on our objectives set out in the Resources and Waste Strategy, which are available online via GOV.uk.[1]

(b) We have worked with the National Fly-Tipping Prevention Group to develop the first part of the fly-tipping toolkit, a guide to help local authorities and others present robust cases to court as a means of securing tougher sentences. We intend to publish this shortly.

[1] Resources and waste strategy for England: monitoring and evaluation - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)