Fly Tipping: Kent

Damian Green
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate he has made of the number of incidents of fly-tipping in (a) Ashford constituency and (b) Kent in each of the last five years.

Dan Norris
The number of incidents of fly-tipping recorded on the Flycapture database by (a) Ashford borough council and (b) all local authorities in Kent in each of the last five years is as follows:

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|       |Ashford borough council|Kent local authorities (including Ashford)|
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|2004-05|950                    |31,298                                    |
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|2005-06|1,177                  |38,878                                    |
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|2006-07|1,450                  |38,333                                    |
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|2007-08|1,177                  |27,702                                    |
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|2008-09|1,123                  |21.038                                    |
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The number of incidents of fly-tipping recorded as having been dealt with by local authorities on the Flycapture database is published annually on the DEFRA website:

www.defra.gov.uk/environment/quality/local/flytipping/flycapture-data.htm

Incidents of fly-tipping cleared from private land by the landowner are not recorded.