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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the total amount was of municipal solid waste generated in each of the last ten years.

Data on all waste collected and managed by local authorities is published annually in our statistical release entitled ‘Statistics on waste managed by local authorities in England’. This relates to primarily household waste.

Please see Table 1 attached for financial year data on all waste generated within the remit of local authorities in England from 2007/08 to 2016/17.