(2) how many (a) prosecutions and (b) successful prosecutions there were in West Sussex for fly-tipping in (i) 1997 and (ii) each of the last four years for which figures are available.
Flycapture, the national fly-tipping database, was set up in 2004 by Defra, the Environment Agency and the Local Government Association to record the number of fly-tipping incidents dealt with by the Environment Agency and local authorities. Data are, therefore, only available from April 2004 onwards and are as follows:
2004-05 2005-06 Total number of incidents in West Sussex 5,228 6,471 Estimated clearance costs (£) 263,414.02 305,963.88 Number of prosecutions taken to court 1 0 Number of successful prosecutions 1 0
Data for 2006-07 are not yet available but will be published in the summer.