Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 45248

Fly-tipping: Rural Areas

Tabled: 8 April 2025
Answered: 23 April 2025

Question

Manuela Perteghella

Liberal DemocratStratford-on-Avon

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help support (a) local authorities and (b) enforcement agencies to tackle fly-tipping in rural areas.

Answer

Mary Creagh
We recognise the burden that clearing fly-tipped waste places on landowners. We want to reduce incidents in the first place so that fewer landowners are affected. Local authorities have a range of enforcement powers to tackle fly-tipping and we want to se...

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