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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has had discussions with Slough Borough Council on their legal duty to remove fly-tipped waste located beside Stoke Road and the Slough Arm of the Grand Union Canal.

Defra has not had discussions with Slough Borough Council on the removal of fly-tipped waste beside Stoke Road and the Slough Arm of the Grand Union Canal.

Local authorities are responsible for the removal and disposal of fly-tipped waste on public land, and for fly-tipped waste in water on council land. Where waste is on private land, responsibility rests with the landowner or occupier, and councils have powers to require its removal.