Written question asked by Barry Sheerman (Labour) on Thursday, 13 January 2022, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 17 January 2022. It was answered by Jo Churchill (Conservative) on Friday, 21 January 2022 on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Skips

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department takes to help ensure that skips are emptied at official recycling and landfill sites.

Answer

Waste site operators and anyone who transports waste must hold an appropriate environmental permit or registration, which can impose conditions on operators about how waste is handled. Today we are launching a consultation on the reform and strengthening of the waste carrier, broker, and dealer regime, and on introducing mandatory digital waste tracking. Taken together, these two reforms will significantly strengthen the powers available to tackle rogue waste operations.

A detailed breakdown of the flytipping incidents reported by local authorities available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fly-tipping-in-england. While illegal dumping specifically from skips is not separately recorded flytipping incidents can be filtered by size.

More widely we have given the Environment Agency Â£60 million extra to tackle waste crime since 2014 on top of the wider funding it receives from Defra. We have also set up the Joint Unit for Waste Crime to disrupt serious and organised waste crime and reduce its impact on the economy, the environment and local communities.

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Type: Written question
Reference: 103517
Session: 2021-22
Grouped for answer: Yes
Transferred: Yes
Subjects: Skips
Link: View this Written question on www.parliament.uk

Skips

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