Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 15733

Domestic Waste: Waste Disposal

Tabled: 25 November 2024
Answered: 3 December 2024

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of local authorities charging homeowners to dispose of garden waste.

Answer

Mary Creagh
Local authorities have had the option to charge for a garden waste collection since 1992, as per the Controlled Waste (England & Wales) Regulations [2012]. As stated in our most recently published Final Impact Assessment for Simpler Recycling, around ...
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