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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding her Department has allocated to projects to help prevent fly-tipping in each of the last three financial years.

In 2022, we provided 11 local authorities with total grant funding of almost £450,000 to purchase equipment to tackle fly-tipping. In 2023, we followed this up with total grant funding of £775,000 to support 21 local authorities to tackle fly-tipping.

These grant funds will help councils to purchase equipment to tackle fly-tipping at known hot-spots. The projects funded include containers to support a ‘no bags on the street’ policy in Newham, beautification combined with anti-climb fencing in Hyndburn and the integration of CCTV and a digital fly-tipping education tool in Durham.