Oral Answers to Questions

Adam Thompson Excerpts

Thursday 22nd October 2026 Commons Chamber

[Melanie Onn (Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes) (Lab)]

5. What steps she is taking to help tackle fly-tipping.

[Adam Thompson (Erewash) (Lab)]

7. What steps she is taking to help tackle fly-tipping.

[Kevin Bonavia (Stevenage) (Lab)]

13. What steps she is taking to help tackle fly-tipping.

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[Emma Hardy]

My hon. Friend is right to raise that. Her constituents are, understandably, frustrated, and I share her confusion as to why her council does not want to use the powers it has been given to fine fly-tippers, seize their vans and prosecute them. I join her in urging her council to do the job it has been elected to do, and I hope her residents remember this lack of action when it comes to the next election.

[Adam Thompson]

Trafalgar Square—not the one down the road, but the much smaller one back home in Erewash—is a private road with a persistent fly-tipping problem. There are signs up that ask people to stop doing it. I have reported it loads of times to the council, and so do local people all the time, but if the piles of bulky waste in the area get cleared, they come back almost immediately, so today I am escalating this. Could the Minister elaborate on how the Government are working to get a grip on fly-tipping, particularly in hotspots like Trafalgar Square in Long Eaton?

[Emma Hardy]

I completely understand the frustration of my hon. Friend’s constituents at repeated fly-tipping on private roads. We are taking this seriously. We have increased the maximum fine for offenders to £5,000, and we are working on advising the owners of private land on land security through the National Fly-Tipping Prevention Group. We are happy to give that advice to private landowners, but where we find out who is responsible, we will not hesitate in going after them.