Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 119681

Motor Vehicles: Litter

Tabled: 10 March 2026
Answered: 18 March 2026

Question

Gideon Amos

Liberal DemocratTaunton and Wellington

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment the Department has made of the contribution of littering from vehicles to roadside litter; and what consideration her Department has given to the adequacy of (a) the le

Answer

Mary Creagh
No assessment has been made of the contribution of littering from vehicles to roadside litter. Local councils have legal powers to take enforcement action against offenders who litter from vehicles.  Anyone caught littering from a vehicle may be prosecute...

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