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1470615

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date	15/06/2022
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	Joint Unit for Waste Crime
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 he has made of the performance of the Joint Unit on Waste Crime since its introduction in combatting (a) waste crime and (b) the increase in the involvement of organised crime in the waste industry.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	18812
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2022 answer text <p>In the two years since its launch in January 2020 the Joint Unit for Waste Crime has worked with over 50 partner organisations and engaged in 74 multi-agency days of action. These have resulted in 52 associated arrests. It is the lead responsible organisation for four organised criminal groups. There have been a number of multi-agency interventions against these groups, including refusal of permits, intelligence-targeted waste sampling and spray marking, and intelligence-led road stops.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 23/06/2022 17:15:30 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1470616

registered interest
date	15/06/2022
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	Joint Unit for Waste Crime: Finance
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 he has made of the adequacy of the current funding model for the Joint Unit on Waste Crime.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	18813
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2022 answer text <p>The Government has ensured that recent additional funding to the Environment Agency (EA) to tackle waste crime is now part of its baseline, and so, the EA is able to prioritise funding for the Joint Unit for Waste Crime more effectively.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 28/06/2022 16:10:41 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1470617

registered interest
date	15/06/2022
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	Joint Unit for Waste Crime: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many personnel are currently employed full-time to the Joint Unit on Waste Crime.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	18814
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2022 answer text <p>The Joint Waste Crime Team currently employs 14 staff.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 23/06/2022 17:12:22 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1470620

registered interest
date	15/06/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Joint Unit for Waste Crime: Revenue and Customs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many employees of HM Revenue and Customs are currently permanently deployed to the Joint Unit on Waste Crime.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	18815
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2022 answer text HMRC has no permanently deployed resource to the Joint Unit of Waste Crime (JUWC), and do not feel that a permanently deployed resource to the JUWC would be needed at this time. The JUWC is mainly resourced with staff from the Environment Agency, and the main focus of the JUWC work is not tax compliance. answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 23/06/2022 16:30:08 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1470621

registered interest
date	15/06/2022
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	Waste: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to assess the cost of waste crime to the UK economy.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	18816
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2022 answer text <p>The Environmental Services Association (ESA) estimates the cost of waste crime to the English economy in the 2018/19 financial year at £924 million. Scaled up to UK-level, the cost is estimated to be a little over £1 billion. The work done on behalf of ESA uses data produced by sources including HMRC, the Environment Agency (EA) and Defra, as well as EA analysis into costs and impacts of waste crime.</p><p>We have already taken action by introducing new powers to stop illegal waste sites posing a risk to the environment, including the ability to lock up sites and to force rogue operators to clean up all their waste. Building on this, measures in the Environment Act 2021 give agencies stronger powers of entry and access to evidence in prosecuting waste crimes. We have also set up the Joint Unit for Waste Crime to disrupt serious and organised waste crime and reduce its impact.</p><p>Our electronic waste tracking reforms will make it harder than ever to mis-identify waste or dispose of it inappropriately. Planned changes to the Carriers, Brokers and Dealers licensing regime will modernise licensing and make it even harder for rogue operators to escape detection. We will also soon publish our plans for reform of the exemptions regime, removing opportunities for criminals to abuse the system.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 22/06/2022 16:35:32 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1470623

registered interest
date	15/06/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Fly-tipping
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the current funding model for the Highways Agency in relation to fulfilling their functions in the clean-up of fly-tipping incidents.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	18817
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2022 answer text <p>As part of the second Road Investment Strategy, Government is providing £24 billion to fund infrastructure, maintenance and operations on the Strategic Road Network and that funding covers work towards performance targets including on litter. This focuses on parts of the Strategic Road Network that National Highways is responsible for cleansing and measures the percentage of network where litter is graded at B or above, according to the Code of Practice on litter and refuse.</p><p> </p><p>This provides an incentive for National Highways to do more to combat litter and fly-tipping on the Strategic Road Network. National Highways is funded in five-year periods; we are currently developing the third Road Investment Strategy (2025-2030) which provides an opportunity to set out our performance requirements and the associated funding required.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 24/06/2022 13:23:26 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1470698

registered interest
date	15/06/2022
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	Environment Agency: Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reason the number of prosecutions undertaken by the Environment Agency has declined every year since 2007.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	18822
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2022 answer text <p>Taking cases forward to prosecution is only one part of the Environment Agency's (EA) overall enforcement activity. Other interventions such as Notices requiring action and civil sanctions are quicker and can be effective in securing good outcomes for the environment in different ways.</p><p>The Regulatory Enforcement &amp; Sanctions (RES) Act 2008 made civil sanctions available to the EA to use from 2011. The number of enforcement undertakings accepted by the EA under the RES Act has nearly doubled from 2016 to 2020. This has included, for example, the compensation of £975,000 made by Wessex Water following sewage pollution at Swanage Harbour in November 2018.</p><p>The EA focuses prosecutions on the most serious and harmful pollution cases, allowing it to focus resources where the impact is greatest. We still take the most serious cases to court. The size of fines for environmental offences are at the highest they have ever been, and custodial sentences are now being imposed regularly for environmental offences.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 28/06/2022 16:41:55 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones