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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many square kilometres of landfill there were in (a) the UK, (b) England and (c) Yorkshire in each of the last five years.

The latest data were published in 2013 with trends data back to 1999. Inputs to landfill in England from 2009-2013 (in 000s tonnes) were:

2013 41,068

2012 41,797

2011 44,699

2010 43,563

2009 43,964

This information can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/waste-management-for-england-2013.

Neither Defra nor the Environment Agency hold data on square kilometres of landfill in the UK, England and Yorkshire of the last five years.