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Waste Disposal

Asked by Robbie MooreConservativeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 27 February 2025UIN 32077

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has plans to reform waste exemptions under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016.

Answered by Mary Creagh

Defra is developing reforms to the waste exemptions regime which will ensure activities carried out under waste exemptions are indeed low risk and small scale and which will prevent exemptions from being used to hide illegal activity.

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