Written questions

Waste Disposal: Regulation

Commons · Question 101290 · Tabled 17 Dec 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 5 Jan 2026

Question

Asked by Freddie van Mierlo

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will bring forward the implementation timing of policy proposals to strengthen controls on waste-carrier registration; and what steps is his department currently taking to preven

Answer

Answered by Mary Creagh, 5 Jan 2026

Work has begun to draft the necessary legislative amendments for reform of the carriers, brokers, dealers regime and these will be progressed as soon as parliamentary time allows. Our planned reforms to the waste carriers, brokers and dealers regime and t...