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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment her Department has made of trends in the proportion of waste sent to landfill by local authorities.

The latest available published statistics on the management of Local Authority collected waste in England are for the financial year 2014/15 which were published on 1 December 2015 and include information on the waste disposed to landfill. These data are available in the statistical notice and accompanying dataset on the gov.uk website via this link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-authority-collected-waste-management-annual-results.

In the financial year 2014/15, 25% of all Local Authority managed waste was disposed to landfill compared to 79% in 2000/01 with year on year reductions. Details are given in Table 1 below.

Table 1 Local Authority Managed waste in England Disposed to Landfill