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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the work of the National Fly-Tipping Prevention Group on disseminating good practice on the prevention of fly tipping.

We work closely with the National Fly-Tipping Prevention Group, whose members contribute on a voluntary basis, to promote and share best practice. The group has published various guides on tackling the issue, along with a range of case studies, and we use our influence to disseminate these as widely as possible. We are currently working with the group to produce a best practice fly-tipping toolkit and have recently published the first part on their website:

www.tacklingflytipping.com/Documents/NFTPG-Files/FlyTipping-Toolkit-Cases.pdf.