Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 65785
Fly-tipping: Prosecutions
Tabled: 8 July 2025
Answered: 16 July 2025
Question
Wendy Morton
Conservative — Aldridge-Brownhills
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support local authorities seeking to prosecute repeat fly-tipping offenders.
Answer
Mary CreaghThe Government encourages councils to make good use of their enforcement powers, including prosecution, and we are taking steps to help them do so. We intend to develop new fly-tipping enforcement guidance and are also reviewing their powers to seize and ...
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