Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 107353

Waste: Crime

Tabled: 21 January 2026

Answered: 27 January 2026

Named Day

Question

Tim Farron

Liberal Democrat — Westmorland and Lonsdale

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what was the total Environment Agency expenditure on waste crime in each year since 2015.

Answer

Mary Creagh

The Environment Agency (EA) is unable to track total expenditure on waste crime as waste crime is delivered by a range of multi-functional teams. The EA can only report on what is allocated, not what is spent. The table provided sets out the EA’s Grant in...

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