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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information he holds on the amount of litter that was dropped in (a) Northamptonshire and (b) England in the last year for which figures are available.

Defra does not hold data on the amount of litter collected, either locally or at a national level.

Further to the commitments given in the Litter Strategy, earlier this year we published a new ‘dashboard’ of indicators which, taken together, help us to understand the extent of litter and littering in England. The dashboard can be found online at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/litter-and-littering-in-england-2016-to-2017/litter-and-littering-in-england-2016-to-2017.