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

To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the cost of fly tipping to private landlords in each of the past three years.

The Government has not made an estimate of the cost of fly-tipping to private landlords for the last three years.

Local authorities in England are required to report fly-tipping incidents and enforcement action to Defra, which the department have published annually since 2012, at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fly-tipping-in-england. We expect that this data excludes the majority of private-land incidents. Data for the 2024/25 reporting year is currently being processed.