Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2017 to Question 115795, if he will provide a breakdown of breaches of permits in each of the Environment Agency’s 14 operational areas in each of the last five years.
This table shows the breaches of waste sites for all 16 Environment Agency areas for the last 5 years. Some areas have many more permitted facilities than others and will consequently have more breaches. This table shows the total number of breaches.
Environment Agency Area | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
Cambs and Bedfordshire | 482 | 597 | 994 | 735 | 772 |
Cumbria and Lancashire | 303 | 490 | 943 | 691 | 407 |
Derbys Notts and Leics | 699 | 1153 | 1084 | 673 | 591 |
Devon and Cornwall | 569 | 742 | 1017 | 761 | 714 |
Essex Norfolk and Suffolk | 602 | 781 | 1035 | 846 | 910 |
Gtr Mancs Mersey and Ches | 848 | 1192 | 1714 | 1051 | 994 |
Herts and North London | 1050 | 1162 | 1391 | 1120 | 636 |
Kent and South London | 886 | 1168 | 1538 | 1141 | 935 |
Lincs and Northants | 709 | 1095 | 1093 | 600 | 446 |
Northumberland Durham and Tees | 482 | 713 | 1263 | 1089 | 821 |
Shrops Heref Worcs and Glos | 299 | 407 | 600 | 524 | 432 |
Solent and South Downs | 329 | 395 | 485 | 372 | 444 |
Staffs Warks and West Mids | 1166 | 1720 | 1773 | 1302 | 1088 |
Wessex | 497 | 887 | 957 | 703 | 512 |
West Thames | 726 | 676 | 795 | 718 | 601 |
Yorkshire | 1459 | 1862 | 2268 | 1891 | 1361 |
Total | 11106 | 15040 | 18950 | 14217 | 11664 |