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Fly Tipping: Wirral

Volume 471: debated on Tuesday 29 January 2008

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Ben Chapman

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) what the total cost of clean-up of fly-tipping was in Wirral, South in (a) 2007, (b) 2003 and (c) 1997; (182307)

(2) how many incidents of fly-tipping there were in Wirral, South in the past (a) year, (b) five years and (c) 10 years.

Joan Ruddock

[holding answer 25 January 2008]: Data are only available from 2004 onwards.

I have arranged for a table to be placed in the Library of the House showing the number of fly-tipping incidents, estimated clearance costs and prosecutions recorded in each local authority by local authorities on Flycapture for 2004-05, 2005-06 and 2006-07.

Following the release of the 2006-07 Flycapture statistics on 9 October 2007, this information has been sent to all MPs.

It is also available to download electronically on DEFRA's Flycapture website at:

http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/localenv/flytipping/flycapture-data.htm