Fly-tipping
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of publishing a local authority league table for incidences of fly-tipping.
Answered by Mary Creagh
This Government has not made an assessment of the potential merits of publishing a local authority league table for incidences of fly-tipping.
Local authorities in England are required to report fly-tipping incidents and actions to Defra, which are published annually at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fly-tipping-in-england. In assessing the figures local authorities should not be classified as ‘good’ or ‘poor’ performers based purely on numbers of fly-tips and comparisons between local authorities should be made with care.
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