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Waste: Codes of Practice

Commons · Question 24031 · Tabled 14 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 22 Jan 2025

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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 20 December 2024 to Question 19918 on Waste: Codes of Practice, what representations he has received, on outsourced private enforcement firms issuing fines in

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Answered by Mary Creagh, 22 Jan 2025

Current littering enforcement guidance for local authorities is clear that where external contractors are used, private firms should not be able to receive greater revenue or profits just from increasing the volume of penalties and that local authorities ...