Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 55280

Barbecues

Tabled: 30 May 2025
Answered: 9 June 2025

Question

Kevin Bonavia

LabourStevenage

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take legislative steps to ban disposable barbeques.

Answer

Mary Creagh
The Government has no plans to ban disposable barbeques at present. Local authorities already have powers to apply local bans on council or public land. It would also be a crime to litter a disposable barbecue for which councils have powers to issue fixed...

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