Waste: Crime
Commons · Question 66606 · Tabled 10 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 18 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Gareth Snell
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent estimate his Department has made of the annual cost to the public purse of (a) waste crime and (b) illegal waste exports.
Answer
Answered by Mary Creagh, 18 Jul 2025
The Environmental Services Association (ESA) estimated in 2021 that waste crime costs the economy in England about £1 billion per year of which at least £42 million per year could be attributed to illegal waste exports. (see here: ESA_Cost_of_Waste_Crime....