Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the powers available to local authorities to prosecute people responsible for fly-posting.

My Department has not undertaken any recent formal assessment of local planning authorities’ powers to deal with fly-posting. However, local authorities already have extensive powers under the advertisement control regime in the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and through community protection notices in the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 to tackle fly-posting. This includes the power to prosecute those responsible if they fail to comply with any enforcement action.