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Fly-tipping: Fixed Penalties

Asked by Shaun DaviesLabourDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 10 September 2024UIN 3846

The question

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.

Answered by Mary Creagh

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.

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