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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support local authorities with combatting fly-tipping.

Ending the menace of fly-tipping is a real priority. We have already introduced fixed penalty fines for fly-tipping and are working with councils to develop a fly-tipping toolkit. We have also provided over £450,000 in direct grants to help councils tackle fly-tipping with measures like CCTV – with more to come this year. Additionally, measures such as digital waste tracking and improvements to waste licensing will make it easier than ever to find and punish professional fly-tippers and other waste criminals.