Question follow-through · 43069
Fly Tipping and Litter
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to support local government to help tackle flytipping and littering.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 1 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 8 Apr 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to support local government to help tackle flytipping and littering.
3 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Apr 2025
Answer published
Local councils have wide ranging enforcement powers to help them tackle littering and fly-tipping. These include fixed penalty notices of up to £1000 to fly-tippers and £500 to those who litter, prosecution action and, in the case of fly-tipping, vehicle ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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