Question follow-through · 8442
Waste Management
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many abandoned waste sites there are; and if he will publish a list of such sites.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 10 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 14 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 17 Oct 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many abandoned waste sites there are; and if he will publish a list of such sites.
14 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Oct 2024
Answer published
As of July 2024, the Environment Agency confirmed 35 abandoned waste sites in England. An abandoned site occurs if the waste management permit holder dies, or the company is wound up. Information on these sites was not published when he was Secretary of S...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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