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

To ask His Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Baroness Hayman of Ullock on 24 December 2025 (HL12960), in what proportion of the instances of the illegal dumping of waste on private land the perpetrator is identified and required to remove the waste; and in instances where the perpetrator dumping waste on private land is not identified, whose responsibility it is to remove the waste.

Data on the proportion of illegal dumping incidents on private land where the perpetrator is identified and required to remove the waste is not held centrally.

In instances where the perpetrator dumping waste on private land is not identified responsibility to remove the waste falls to the landowner.