Waste: Crime
Commons · Question 62631 · Tabled 25 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 2 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Wendy Morton
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to increase coordination between (a) the Environment Agency, (b) local authorities and (c) police forces to tackle organised waste crime.
Answer
Answered by Mary Creagh, 2 Jul 2025
The Joint Unit for Waste Crime, hosted by the Environment Agency, is a multi-agency taskforce established specifically to share intelligence and operational capability and capacity to tackle serious and organised criminality in the waste sector. When appr...