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Waste: Crime

Asked by Adam JogeeLabourDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 18 December 2025UIN 99962

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the cost to the public purse of waste crime.

Answered by Mary Creagh

The Government has made no recent assessment. The Environmental Services Association estimated in 2021 that waste crime costs the economy in England about £1 billion per year.

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