Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will ask the National Crime Agency to investigate large-scale fly tipping gangs.

The NCA is accountable to the Home Secretary and through the Home Secretary, to Parliament, but it is operationally independent. The Home Secretary sets the NCA’s strategic priorities and holds the Director General to account for the discharge of NCA functions. Within that framework, the Director General sets the NCA’s operational priorities.

The DG NCA has the power and responsibility to direct the NCA, including deciding which operations the NCA should run against which organised crime groups and threats and how those operations should be conducted.