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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of a single national reporting system for incidents of waste crime.

Comprehensive guidance on how to report waste crime is available on GOV.UK here. The guidance provides clear signposts towards different reporting routes, based on the nature of the crime and which authority is responsible for enforcement. A single, national reporting system would simply triage reports towards these established routes, which at present is done most efficiently by the person reporting the crime at hand. Crimestoppers has launched a national campaign, encouraging the public to play their part by anonymously reporting suspicious activity via 08000 555 111, helping to protect communities and tackle waste crime.