Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 84458

Waste Disposal: Organised Crime

Tabled: 22 October 2025
Answered: 29 October 2025
Named Day

Question

Shaun Davies

LabourTelford

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle organised crime in the waste sector.

Answer

Mary Creagh
This Government is committed to tackling waste crime from the fly-tippers who blight our towns and villages to the serious and organised crime groups who are exploiting the waste sector. We have increased the Environment Agency’s budget for waste crime en...

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