Question follow-through · 7247
Waste: Organised Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking with the Secretary of State for the Home Department to ensure effective action is taken against organised criminal networks in the waste sector.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 5 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 11 Jun 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking with the Secretary of State for the Home Department to ensure effective action is taken against organised criminal networks in the waste sector.
9 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Jun 2026
Answer published
Defra works closely with the Home Office and National Police Chiefs’ Council to ensure an aligned and effective response to waste crime. The Home Office sets the overarching serious and organised crime strategy and tasking framework, with waste crime trea...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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