Fly-tipping

(asked on 23rd January 2017) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the Government's progress on preventing fly-tipping; and when the fly-tipping in England 2015 to 2016 statistics will be published.


Answered by
Thérèse Coffey Portrait
Thérèse Coffey
This question was answered on 30th January 2017

We are committed to tackling fly-tipping and, as set out in the Government’s manifesto, have given local councils the power to issue fixed penalty notices for small-scale fly-tipping. These new enforcement tools have been available to councils since May 2016, providing them with an alternative to prosecutions and assisting them in taking a proportionate enforcement response.

This builds on other Government action to tackle fly-tipping, which has included: working with the Sentencing Council on its guideline for sentencing for environmental offences; making it easier for vehicles suspected of being involved in waste crime to be stopped, searched and seized; and continuing our work with the Defra chaired National Fly-Tipping Prevention Group to promote and disseminate good practice in the prevention, reporting, investigation and clearance of fly-tipped waste.

The 2015/16 fly tipping data for England, including the number and type of incidents of illegally deposited waste, the cost of dealing with them and the actions taken, is expected to be published in March. The actual publication date will be confirmed shortly and will be available via the Office for National Statistics website:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics.

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