Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 62631
Waste: Crime
Tabled: 25 June 2025
Answered: 2 July 2025
Question
Wendy Morton
Conservative — Aldridge-Brownhills
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to increase coordination between (a) the Environment Agency, (b) local authorities and (c) police forces to tackle organised waste crime.
Answer
Mary CreaghThe Joint Unit for Waste Crime, hosted by the Environment Agency, is a multi-agency taskforce established specifically to share intelligence and operational capability and capacity to tackle serious and organised criminality in the waste sector. When appr...
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