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Waste: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the cost to the public purse of waste crime.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
15 Dec 2025
Target answer date
17 Dec 2025
Answer
18 Dec 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 15 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the cost to the public purse of waste crime.

  2. 17 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 18 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    The Government has made no recent assessment. The Environmental Services Association estimated in 2021 that waste crime costs the economy in England about £1 billion per year.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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