Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 3846

Fly-tipping: Fixed Penalties

Tabled: 2 September 2024

Answered: 10 September 2024

Question

Shaun Davies

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will provide councils with powers to recover the full cost of (a) investigations, (b) prosecutions, (c) clean up and (d) prevention of fly tipping when issuing fixed penalty noti

Answer

Mary Creagh

Local authorities can issue fixed penalty notices of up to £1,000 to fly-tippers. The income from these fixed penalty notices must be spent on enforcement and clean-up specifically. The department has not yet made an assessment of this policy, which was i...

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