Fly-tipping

(asked on 20th March 2017) - View Source
Questioner
Andrew Rosindell Portrait
Andrew Rosindell
(Reform UK - Romford)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans her Department has to reduce fly tipping; and if she will make a statement.

Answered by
Baroness Coffey Portrait
Baroness Coffey
This question was answered on 23rd March 2017

We are committed to tackling fly-tipping and, as set out in the Government’s manifesto have given local councils the power to issue fixed penalty notices for small-scale fly-tipping. These new enforcement tools have been available to councils since May 2016, providing them with an alternative to prosecutions and assisting them in taking a proportionate enforcement response.

This builds on other Government action to tackle fly-tipping, which has included:

  • Introducing stronger powers for local authorities and the Environment Agency to seize vehicles of those suspected of waste crime.

  • Cracking down on offenders by working with the Sentencing Council to ensure sentences act as a real deterrent to offending. New guidance came into force on 1 July 2014.

  • Strengthening the waste duty of care by publishing a revised Waste Duty of Care Code of Practice, that provides guidance to local authorities, regulators, waste industry and all those that produce, keep, import, treat, have control or dispose of controlled waste on how to comply with their waste duty of care obligations.

  • Supporting the industry-led Right Waste Right Place campaign to promote Duty of Care to small businesses. The campaign will be targeting construction, retail and agricultural businesses.

  • Chairing the National Fly-Tipping Prevention Group (NFTPG) to prevent and tackle illegal dumping. The NFTPG includes representatives from central and local Government, enforcement authorities, the waste industry, and private landowners. The NFTPG has published a Fly-tipping Partnership Framework outlining best practice for the prevention, reporting, investigation and clearance of fly-tipping to be adapted to suit local circumstances as well as a series of fly-tipping prevention guides for householders, businesses, landowners and local authorities.

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