Question follow-through · 49743
Litter: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a national litter awareness course.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 1 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 6 May 2025
- Answer
- 12 May 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a national litter awareness course.
6 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 May 2025
Answer published
This Government has not made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a national litter awareness course. Local councils have a range of enforcement powers to tackle littering, including civil penalties of up to £500 that can be issued to the ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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