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1693319

registered interest
date	04/03/2024
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Litter
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to tackle litter.
tabling member constituency	Ashford
tabling member printed	Damian Green
uin	16579
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2024 answer text <p>Our Litter Strategy for England sets out our aim to deliver a substantial reduction in litter and littering within a generation. The strategy contains a number of commitments, many of which have been completed or are nearing completion. Progress reports on delivering the Litter Strategy can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/litter-strategy-for-england-progress-reports" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/litter-strategy-for-england-progress-reports</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The Prime Minister’s Anti-Social Behaviour Action Plan set out how we will support council’s to take tougher action against those that litter. For example, last July we significantly raised the upper limit on fixed penalty notices from £150 to £500.</p><p> </p><p>The Chewing Gum Task Force, established by Defra and funded by producers, has provided almost £2.5 million in grants since 2022 to help nearly 100 councils remove gum stains from high streets and invest in long-term behaviour change to prevent gum being dropped in the first place. The Task Force has just launched another grant scheme for councils this year. Further information can be be found at: <a href="https://www.keepbritaintidy.org/local-authorities/reduce-litter/gum-litter/chewing-gum-task-force" target="_blank">https://www.keepbritaintidy.org/local-authorities/reduce-litter/gum-litter/chewing-gum-task-force</a>.</p><p> </p><p>National Highways has developed a new campaign that aims to educate and change road users’ behaviour towards littering. The campaign will run from 12 February to 10 March and road users will be implored to stop littering as its deadly impact on wildlife is revealed.</p><p> </p><p>In January this year, we announced our plans to ban disposable vapes in the UK. This will help to tackle a huge and growing stream of hard-to-recycle waste and litter, with nearly 5 million thrown away every week.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 08/03/2024 13:54:25 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
tabling member	76 label Biography information for Damian Green

1648732

registered interest
date	28/06/2023
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Litter
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what financial resources they are allocating to anti-littering campaigns in England.
tabling member printed	Earl Russell
uin	HL8893
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2023 answer text <p>Defra launched the “Keep it, Bin it” anti-litter campaign in 2018 with Keep Britain Tidy to encourage people to dispose of their litter responsibly. Defra spent over £200,000 on scoping, developing and launching the campaign. Since 2019/20, the campaign has been funded by external partners. Keep Britain Tidy have now made the campaign available to local authorities and landowners for local use.</p><p> </p><p>In response to COVID-19, Defra spent just under £100,000 on the development and launch of the 'Respect the Outdoors' campaign which included messaging about littering among other issues. We also contributed £30,000 for Keep Britain Tidy's Love Parks campaign, which encouraged people to treat our parks with respect.</p><p> </p><p>We have previously provided nearly £1million across 44 councils to help them to purchase new bins, in support of targeted interventions to reduce litter. Across the last two years, our fly-tipping grant scheme has awarded nearly £1.2million to help more than 30 councils tackle the dumping of waste at known hot-spots.</p><p> </p><p>We have also used social media to raise awareness of the impact of litter and to encourage individuals to put their rubbish in the bin or to take it home. The cost of these activities cannot be separated. Likewise, spend on Defra staff cannot be disaggregated.</p> answering member printed Lord Benyon question first answered 06/07/2023 14:10:05 answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon
tabling member	4983 label Biography information for Earl Russell

1646005

registered interest
date	20/06/2023
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Litter
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will commission research on the potential effectiveness of behavioural science in reducing littering.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	190293
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2023 answer text <p>Our Litter Strategy already draws on insights from behavioural science and ‘nudge’ theory. Studies have shown that these approaches, which often combine elements of all three means of influencing behaviour set out in the Litter Strategy – education, enforcement and infrastructure - can be very effective ways to address specific types of littering. We are not currently planning to commission further research on the potential effectiveness of behavioural science in reducing littering.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 26/06/2023 09:39:51 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

1608166

registered interest
date	28/03/2023
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Litter
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to reduce litter in (a) Watford constituency and (b) nationally.
tabling member constituency	Watford
tabling member printed	Dean Russell
uin	175687
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2023 answer text <p>Our new Anti-social Behaviour Action Plan sets out how we will support councils to take tougher action against those who litter. This includes significantly raising the upper limit on fixed penalty notices from £150 to £500, and measures to help councils issue more penalties.</p><p> </p><p>Our Litter Strategy for England sets out our aim to deliver a substantial reduction in litter and littering within a generation. It contains a number of commitments and progress reports are available at: <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Flitter-strategy-for-england-progress-reports&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cpqtransfers%40defra.gov.uk%7C64cf9ba0c8f34444355f08db3066d71e%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638156990468520681%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=kqRhZVgbYo%2BKXpCuEPYDBfp5rX5PppSw2KGlTChA5ok%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/litter-strategy-for-england-progress-reports</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Since publishing the Litter Strategy, we have published guidance on the provision of litter bins and provided nearly £1 million across 44 councils to help councils purchase new bins. Watford Borough Council were one of the recipients of this grant funding.</p><p> </p><p>We have also announced our plans for a Deposit Return Scheme for drinking containers. We estimate that where the rate of return reaches 90% in year 3 of the scheme there will be an equivalent 90% reduction of in-scope containers discarded as litter.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 04/04/2023 11:23:12 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4812 label Biography information for Dean Russell

1605616

registered interest
date	20/03/2023
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Litter
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the local council’s powers to deal with litter (a) nationally and (b) in Watford constituency.
tabling member constituency	Watford
tabling member printed	Dean Russell
uin	169481
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2023 answer text <p>In recent years we have bolstered local authority enforcement powers by raising the upper limit on fixed penalty notices for littering and introducing powers to issue the keeper of a vehicle, from which litter is thrown, with a civil penalty. We have also published guidance on the provision of litter bins and provided nearly £1 million across 44 councils to help them purchase new bins.</p><p> </p><p>We will be undertaking a research project which considers the effectiveness of the different enforcement options available to local authorities, including fixed penalties, and the barriers they face in using these. The results of this research will inform policy development in this area.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 24/03/2023 09:20:48 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4812 label Biography information for Dean Russell

1604943

registered interest
date	16/03/2023
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Litter
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the Litter Strategy for England.
tabling member constituency	South Leicestershire
tabling member printed	Alberto Costa
uin	167157
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2023 answer text <p>Annual reports of progress with delivery of the Litter Strategy can be found at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/litter-strategy-for-england-progress-reports" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/litter-strategy-for-england-progress-reports</a>.</p><p> </p><p>We also publish a data dashboard to understand the extent of litter and littering in England. Further updates to the dashboard will be available in due course. The dashboard can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/litter-and-littering-in-england-data-dashboard" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/litter-and-littering-in-england-data-dashboard</a>.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 21/03/2023 17:38:11 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4439 label Biography information for Alberto Costa

1519834

registered interest
date	10/10/2022
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Litter
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to tackle littering in (a) city centres, (b) town centres, (c) the UK and (d) the Newcastle-under-Lyme constituency.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Aaron Bell
uin	60173
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2022 answer text <p>Litter policy is a devolved matter. Defra is the lead department for litter policy in England.</p><p>In 2017 Defra published the Litter Strategy for England which sets out our aim to deliver a substantial reduction in litter and littering within a generation. Since publishing the Litter Strategy, we have bolstered councils' enforcement powers, such as by almost doubling the maximum fixed penalty for littering, published guidance on the provision of litter bins and provided nearly £1 million across 44 councils to help councils purchase new bins.</p><p>We have also brought together chewing gum producers as part of a voluntary producer responsibility scheme that has recently announced funding of £1.25 million to help more than 40 councils across the United Kingdom clean gum off pavements. It is the first project of the five-year programme through which gum producers will invest up to £10 million to help tackle chewing gum littering.</p><p>We are also actively exploring options for tackling cigarette butt littering. Our current proposals for extended producer responsibility for packaging will place the financial costs of managing street bin litter on producers and we have consulted on introducing a deposit return scheme for drinks containers which we estimate can reduce drinks containers being littered by 85%. Further details for when a deposit return scheme will be introduced will be set out in HM Government response to last year's consultation. We are working towards publication in late 2022.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 18/10/2022 16:48:21 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4837 label Biography information for Aaron Bell

1490563

registered interest
date	19/07/2022
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Litter
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to (a) reduce littering offences and (b) protect coastal areas from litter.
tabling member constituency	Bournemouth East
tabling member printed	Mr Tobias Ellwood
uin	39781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2022 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 25 July 2022 to PQ <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-07-18/38548" target="_blank">38548</a>.</p> answering member constituency St Austell and Newquay answering member printed Steve Double grouped question UIN 39780 question first answered 27/07/2022 17:06:16 answering member 4452 label Biography information for Steve Double
tabling member	1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood

1490290

registered interest
date	18/07/2022
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Litter
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help protect wildlife and nature reserves from littering in the context of summer tourism.
tabling member constituency	Bournemouth East
tabling member printed	Mr Tobias Ellwood
uin	38548
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2022 answer text <p>Defra published the Litter Strategy for England in April 2017, setting out our aim to deliver a substantial reduction in litter and littering within a generation. The Litter Strategy brings together communities, businesses, charities and schools to bring about real change by focusing on three key themes: education and awareness; improving enforcement; and better cleaning and access to bins.</p><p>In response to COVID-19, Defra developed a 'Respect the Outdoors' campaign to encourage people to follow the Countryside Code and to highlight the impacts of littering. We also supported, and provided funding for, Keep Britain Tidy's Love Parks campaign, which encouraged people to treat our parks with respect.</p><p>We have also consulted on introducing a deposit return scheme. Our current impact assessment assumes that the scheme can reduce drinks containers being littered by an estimated 85%.</p><p>Furthermore, the Chewing Gum Task Force, established by Defra, has recently launched a grant scheme to help local authorities clean gum off pavements in their local areas and invest in long-term behaviour change to prevent gum being dropped in the first place. It is the first project of a five-year programme that will see chewing gum producers invest up to £10m to tackle gum staining.</p><p>Natural England supports the Countryside Code campaign through a range of communications channels including social media and engaging with commercial partners who help to promote the Code. In addition, Natural England also supports these efforts across its National Nature Reserves through on-site wardens and volunteers who engage with visitors as well as holding community litter pick days.</p> answering member constituency St Austell and Newquay answering member printed Steve Double question first answered 25/07/2022 15:25:13 answering member 4452 label Biography information for Steve Double
tabling member	1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood

1399276

registered interest
date	04/01/2022
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Litter
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has to increase enforcement against littering.
tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
uin	96844
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2022 answer text <p>In recent years we have bolstered councils’ enforcement powers by almost doubling the maximum fixed penalty for littering from £80 to £150 and giving councils in England (outside London) new civil penalty powers to tackle littering from vehicles. Councils also have powers to prosecute anyone caught littering which can lead to a fine of up to £2,500. It is up to local councils to decide how they use their enforcement powers</p><p> </p><p>We have published improved guidance to councils and others on the use of their fixed penalty powers for littering. New powers under the Environment Act will allow us to ensure these powers are always used with a high degree of professionalism.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to review any new evidence regarding the effectiveness of the current enforcement regime.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 10/01/2022 17:24:34 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy