Fly-tipping

(asked on 19th July 2019) - View Source
Questioner
Stephanie Peacock Portrait
Stephanie Peacock
(Labour - Barnsley East)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many instances of fly-tipping have been recorded in (a) Barnsley, (b) South Yorkshire and (c) England in each year since 2010.

Answered by
Thérèse Coffey Portrait
Thérèse Coffey
This question was answered on 29th July 2019

Incidents of fly tipping reported by local authorities and published in annual statistics on a financial year basis, are summarised in the table below.

Year

Barnsley

South Yorkshire*

England

2010/11

1,654

68,346

819,571

2011/12

1,785

58,435

744,414

2012/13

1,677

30,744

714,637

2013/14

2,162

28,481

857,655

2014/15

3,057

20,979

905,604

2015/16

3,804

21,967

941,896

2016/17

4,328

23,355

1,011,199

2017/18

3,746

23,216

997,553

*Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield

Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/env24-fly-tipping-incidents-and-actions-taken-in-england.

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