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

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to make it easier for citizens to help keep land and roads clear of litter by ensuring Councils and Highways England carry out their obligations under the Environmental Protection Act 1990.

Under section 91 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, any person who is aggrieved by the want of cleanliness of any relevant land or highway may bring proceedings in the magistrates’ court against the body responsible for cleaning it.

In the Litter Strategy, we made a commitment to review, by the end of this Parliament, the mechanism by which councils and other land-managers can be held to account for maintaining their land to the standards set out in the Code of Practice, considering a range of options to make it easier for citizens to hold land‑managers to account for delivering their responsibilities.