Waste: Codes of Practice
(asked on 11th November 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Benyon on 28 February 2023 (HL5643), what plans they have to reissue the 2019 Code of Practice on Litter and Refuse as binding statutory guidance on local councils and outsourced firms.
Answered by
Baroness Hayman of Ullock
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The Code of Practice on Litter and Refuse, published in 2006, is already statutory and local councils and other duty bodies must have regard to it when carrying out their duty to keep relevant land clear of litter and refuse.
Separate guidance on enforcement was published in 2019 and attached to the Code of Practice but is not statutory.
At this stage, the Government has not yet made an assessment of how it can further support local authorities to tackle litter.