Anneliese Midgley MP: written questions

4 Jul 2025–3 Jul 2026

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Written questions

Fly-tippingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 121094More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many enforcement notices for illegal waste operations are outstanding.
Answer: In the last 5 years (1 January 2021 – 31 December 2025) there have been 73 notices served under Section 59 and Section 34 of Environmental Protection Act 1990. A Section 59 notice requires the removal of unlawfully deposited waste, and a Section 34 notice...
Answered 24 Mar 2026
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Fly-tippingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 121093More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many illegal waste site operators have received custodial sentences in each of the last five years.
Answer: YearCount of immediate custodial sentencesCount of suspended sentences202159202268202348202416162025018
Answered 24 Mar 2026
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Waste: FinesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 121092More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the average financial penalty issued for waste crime was in the last five years.
Answer: Average fine for where the incident type was waste (regardless of whether related to an illegal waste site) and where the hearing date falls in the 2020 - 2025 range. This data also includes community orders: 2021 - £113,647.962022 - £3,268.002023 - £11,2...
Answered 24 Mar 2026
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Fly-tippingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 121091More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many prosecutions has the Environment Agency brought for operating illegal waste sites in each of the last five years.
Answer: Successful prosecutions associated with illegal waste sites investigations (where the court hearing date is in the requested timeframe and the verdict is guilty): 2021 – 422022 – 482023 – 472024 – 822025 – 68 This data is subject to change as cases reach ...
Answered 24 Mar 2026
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Fly-tippingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 121090More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many enforcement actions the Environment Agency has taken against illegal waste sites in each of the last five years.
Answer: Total number of actions dated within each calendar year for records relating to illegal waste sites. Prosecution outcomes have been removed as these are provided separately in PQ 121091. 2021: 7502022: 5492023: 5742024: 3352025: 343 NB: This data is taken...
Answered 24 Mar 2026
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Fly-tippingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 121089More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many illegal waste sites are located on green belt land.
Answer: This data is not held centrally.
Answered 19 Mar 2026
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Fly-tippingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 121088More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many illegal waste sites are located within one kilometre of residential communities.
Answer: This data is not held centrally.
Answered 19 Mar 2026
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Fly-tippingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 121087More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which local authority areas have the highest number of illegal waste sites currently under investigation by the Environment Agency.
Answer: This data is not available centrally to this level of detail.
Answered 24 Mar 2026
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Fly-tippingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 121086More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many illegal waste sites have been identified in each region of England.
Answer: Total number of Illegal waste sites found per calendar year split by Environment Agency area: NB: This data is taken from a live system and maybe subject to change as investigation details are updated. Environment Agency Area20212022202320242025TotalCumbr...
Answered 24 Mar 2026
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Fly-tippingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 121084More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate her Department has made of the total volume of illegally stored or dumped waste currently present at illegal waste sites in the UK.
Answer: Total tonnage of waste on illegal waste sites that were operational on or after 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2025C (inclusive) and have not been brought into regulation or cleared of waste: 5,544,462. NB: This data is taken from a live system and maybe s...
Answered 24 Mar 2026
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Fly-tippingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 121083More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate her Department has made of the total number of illegal waste dumps currently operating in the UK.
Answer: Total number of illegal waste sites operating as of 17 March 2026: 537. NB: This data is taken from a live system and maybe subject to change as investigation details are updated.
Answered 24 Mar 2026
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Fly-tippingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 121082More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many illegal waste sites were identified in the UK in each of the last five years.
Answer: Total number of illegal waste sites identified per calendar year: 2021: 5832022: 5042023: 5652024: 8922025: 823 NB: This data is taken from a live system and maybe subject to change as investigation details are updated.
Answered 24 Mar 2026
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Packaging: RecyclingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 13 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90905More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of (a) paying Extended Producer Responsibility fees on packaging supplied indirectly to business end users and (b)
Answer: In autumn last year my department published an updated assessment of the impact of introducing the Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging (pEPR) scheme on packaging producers as a whole, when the regulations were laid in parliament. We are aware o...
Answered 24 Nov 2025
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Deposit Return SchemesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 13 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90904More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made with the the Chancellor of the Exchequer, of the potential merits of allowing unredeemed deposits within the Deposit Return Scheme to be retained by the De
Answer: The Government is committed to ensuring that the deposit return schemes operate effectively and that VAT is not a barrier on industry or UK DMO. VAT is a decision for HMRC Ministers. Defra continue to work with HMRC and will set out more detail regarding ...
Answered 20 Nov 2025
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Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government	16
Ministry of Justice	1
Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority	1
Treasury	2

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