Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, what steps she is taking to help ensure the effective prosecution of rural crime.

Criminals should never be left to destroy countryside for their own gain.

The CPS works closely with law enforcement partners to prosecute and deter environmental offending and will hold those who perpetrate it to account.

In March, the government published its Waste Crime Action Plan, which we are bolstering with further measures to tackle organised criminal gangs operating illegal waste dumping sites.