Question follow-through · 74603
Fly-tipping
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent support he has provided to local authorities to help tackle fly-tipping.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 3 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 10 Sept 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
3 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent support he has provided to local authorities to help tackle fly-tipping.
8 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Sept 2025
Answer published
We want to see local authorities make good use of their enforcement powers and are taking steps to help them do so. For example, we are currently reviewing their powers to seize vehicles of suspected fly-tippers to identify ways in which we help them make...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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