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 Creagh
The 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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