Question follow-through · 91698
Waste Disposal: Monitoring
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many and what proportion of local authorities currently use digital waste tracking services.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 17 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 19 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 27 Nov 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many and what proportion of local authorities currently use digital waste tracking services.
19 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Digital Waste Tracking Service goes live from April 2026 for waste receivers, with requirements to digitally track waste received becoming mandatory in October 2026. Waste operators currently use multiple systems – some paper based and others digital ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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