Fly-tipping

(asked on 12th November 2021) - 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 his Department has made of the cost of fly-tipping to local authorities in (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) England in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 17th November 2021

Defra publishes fly-tipping statistics for England annually at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fly-tipping-in-england Data for the 2020/21 period will be published in early December. We last published an estimated total cost of clearing fly-tipping to local authorities in England in 2016/17 at £57.7 million.

Defra is working to develop a fly-tipping toolkit to support local councils following extra research we have commissioned. We expect to publish the first element on ‘Presenting robust cases to court’ early next year. Fly-tipping is a menace we are determined to clamp down on, not only with the new toolkit, but with measures such as electronic waste tracking and strengthening to our waste brokers, carriers and dealers licensing, as well as strengthened powers in the Environment Act to detect and prosecute waste criminals.

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