PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Fly-tipping: Fixed Penalties (2 September 2024)

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will provide councils with powers to recover the full cost of (a) investigations, (b) prosecutions, (c) clean up and (d) prevention of fly tipping when issuing fixed penalty notices for fly-tipping.

Asked by:
Shaun Davies (Labour)

Local authorities can issue fixed penalty notices of up to £1,000 to fly-tippers. The income from these fixed penalty notices must be spent on enforcement and clean-up specifically. The department has not yet made an assessment of this policy, which was introduced under the previous Government, or how it might be changed.

Answered by:
Mary Creagh (Labour)
10 September 2024