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Waste: Crime

Asked by Callum AndersonLabourDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 8 September 2026UIN 24434

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the average cost to local authorities of cleaning up illegal waste sites over each of the last five years.

Answered by Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Neither Defra nor the Environment Agency holds this data.

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