To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many incidents of fly-tipping were reported in Bournemouth in each of the last four years. (132398)

Flycapture, the national fly-tipping database was set up in 2004 by DEFRA, the Environment Agency and the Local Government Association, to record fly-tipping incidents dealt with by the Environment Agency and local authorities. Data are therefore only available from April 2004 onwards.

Numbers of incidents reported in Bournemouth, in years for which data are available, are shown in the following table:

Data for 2006-2007 are not yet available but will be published this summer.