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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent estimate his Department has made of how many and what proportion of local authorities (a) charge and (b) have stopped charging for green bin collections.

There are currently 221 waste collection authorities (67% of all local authorities) in England that charge to collect garden waste from households. The percentage of waste collection authorities that charge to collect garden waste has remained roughly the same over the past three years. We do not hold data on whether any specific waste collection authorities have stopped charging for garden waste collections in recent years.