Litter: Fines

(asked on 6th November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to his Department's press release of 24 October 2017, on new steps to tackle littering, whether he plans for funds raised from the increase in litter fines to be used to tackle (a) fly-tipping on farmland and (b) other local environmental issues.


Answered by
Thérèse Coffey Portrait
Thérèse Coffey
This question was answered on 13th November 2017

Councils may spend the income from fixed penalties issued for littering offences on their functions relating to litter (including keeping their relevant land clear of litter and refuse, keeping relevant highways clean, and enforcement against littering) and on enforcement against graffiti and fly-posting offences.

This spending may include spending on communications and education to abate littering, or on the provision of bins and other street litter disposal infrastructure, but will not include actions specifically to tackle fly-tipping on farmland.

There are no restrictions on how councils can use income from fixed penalties issued for fly-tipping offences.

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