Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 87457

Industrial Waste: North East

Tabled: 3 November 2025
Answered: 11 November 2025

Question

Matt Vickers

ConservativeStockton West

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the availability of permitted landfill capacity for industrial waste in the North East.

Answer

Mary Creagh
The Environment Agency publishes data of landfill capacity on an annual basis which can be accessed here: Remaining Landfill Capacity - data.gov.uk