Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 122964

Fly Tipping: Information Sharing

Tabled: 23 March 2026
Answered: 31 March 2026

Question

Alex Mayer

LabourDunstable and Leighton Buzzard

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of introducing a single national reporting route for instances of fly-tipping.

Answer

Mary Creagh
Individuals can already report illegal waste activity anonymously to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 or online. Local authorities are often best placed to tackle local issues such as fly-tipping, and so any single national reporting route would need to pass...

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