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Waste: Codes of Practice

Commons · Question 19918 · Tabled 12 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 20 Dec 2024

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Asked by Joe Robertson

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 19 November 2024, to Question HL2390, on Waste: Codes of Practice, when his Department plans to respond to the consultation on making the Code of Practice a s

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Answered by Mary Creagh, 20 Dec 2024

The Code of Practice on Litter and Refuse is already a statutory document, and Local Councils must have regard to it when carrying out their duty to keep relevant land clear of litter and refuse. Separate guidance on enforcement was published in 2019 and ...