Written questions

Fly-tipping: Prosecutions

Commons · Question 65785 · Tabled 8 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 16 Jul 2025

Question

Asked by Wendy Morton

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support local authorities seeking to prosecute repeat fly-tipping offenders.

Answer

Answered by Mary Creagh, 16 Jul 2025

The Government encourages councils to make good use of their enforcement powers, including prosecution, and we are taking steps to help them do so. We intend to develop new fly-tipping enforcement guidance and are also reviewing their powers to seize and ...