Fly-tipping: Prosecutions

(asked on 13th February 2020) - View Source
Questioner
Earl of Shrewsbury Portrait
Earl of Shrewsbury
(Conservative - Excepted Hereditary)

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

To ask Her Majesty's Government what has been the number of prosecutions for fly tipping by local authorities in each of the last five years; and what has been the success rate of any such prosecutions.

Answered by
Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park Portrait
Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park
This question was answered on 27th February 2020

The total number of prosecutions for fly-tipping offences by local authorities in England, as well as the proportion that were successful, over the last five years are shown in the table below.

Year

Total number of prosecutions

Number of successful prosecutions

% of successful prosecutions

2014/15

1,810

1,771

97.8%

2015/16

2,203

2,091

94.9%

2016/17

1,571

1,546

98.4%

2017/18

2,243

2,186

97.5%

2018/19

2,397

2,306

96.2%

This information is published as part of the annual Fly-tipping Statistics for England, which is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fly-tipping-in-england

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