Question follow-through · 100637
Fly-tipping
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department has taken to reduce fly-tipping and strengthen the power of local authorities to prevent fly-tipping.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 16 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 23 Dec 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 4 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 2 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
16 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department has taken to reduce fly-tipping and strengthen the power of local authorities to prevent fly-tipping.
18 Dec 2025
Target answer date
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23 Dec 2025
Answer published
We encourage local councils to make good use of their enforcement powers, which include fixed penalty notices of up to £1000, seizing and crushing of vehicles and prosecution action. We are taking steps to develop statutory fly-tipping enforcement guidanc...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Pet Travel Scheme
7 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to her Department's answer of 20 October 2025 to Written Question 80401: Pet Travel Scheme, what recent steps she has taken to negotiate a pet passport scheme.