questionText: 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.
answerText: 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...
heading: Fly-tipping