Question follow-through · 12913
Waste Disposal: Monitoring
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with police forces on using digital waste tracking data to investigate and disrupt criminal groups operating outside the regulated waste sector, particular
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 24 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 29 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 1 Jul 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with police forces on using digital waste tracking data to investigate and disrupt criminal groups operating outside the regulated waste sector, particular
29 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Jul 2026
Answer published
The Environment Agency (EA) is working with their internal compliance and enforcement teams and external partners to ensure we maximise the potential of Digital Waste Tracking to tackle waste crime. They are developing a range of measures that cover preve...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Forests and Tree Planting: Droughts and Temperature
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Tree Planting
28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of spatial targeting of tree planting in urban areas to help reduce social inequalities.
Forestry Act 1967
28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of modernising the Forestry Act 1967 to support nature recovery and ecological targets.
Pets: Tagging
8 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what is the planned launch date for the single point of search tool that will allow all pet microchip databases to be searched.