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Domestic Waste: Waste Disposal

Commons · Question 32580 · Tabled 21 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 6 Mar 2025

Question

Asked by Joe Robertson

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will ensure that councils are aware of the guidance entitled Household waste bins: when and how councils may issue fixed penalties, published on 23 April 2018.

Answer

Answered by Mary Creagh, 6 Mar 2025

The guidance, 'Household waste bins: when and how councils may issue fixed penalties' outlines the rules that councils must follow when issuing fixed penalties under section 46A of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. We routinely point councils to this...