Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 99962
Waste: Crime
Tabled: 15 December 2025
Answered: 18 December 2025
Question
Adam Jogee
Labour — Newcastle-under-Lyme
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the cost to the public purse of waste crime.
Answer
Mary CreaghThe Government has made no recent assessment. The Environmental Services Association estimated in 2021 that waste crime costs the economy in England about £1 billion per year.