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1601929

registered interest
date	07/03/2023
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	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 steps her Department is taking to help tackle waste crime.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	160221
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2023 answer text <p>The Government is committed to tackling waste crime and we are preparing significant reforms to continue to increase the pressure on illegal waste operators. We recently published our Government response to reform of the waste exemptions regime with the intention of closing loopholes and preventing exemptions from being misused to permit risky and illegal activity. Our planned 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 harder still for rogue operators to escape detection. These will come in addition to measures in the Environment Act 2021 which gives agencies stronger powers of entry and access to evidence in prosecuting waste crime as well as providing the Environment Agency with the ability to recover costs of investigation, intervention and enforcement at illegal or non-compliant waste sites.</p><p>The Government also launched the Joint Unit for Waste Crime (JUWC) in 2020. It brings together the Environment Agency, HM Revenue &amp; Customs, the National Crime Agency, the police, waste regulators from across the UK and other operational partners to share intelligence and tasking to disrupt and prevent serious organised waste crime. In the three years since the JUWC launched it has worked with 102 partner organisations and engaged in 175 multi-agency days of action, which have resulted in 51 associated arrests by other agencies.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 13/03/2023 16:21:47 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1589142

registered interest
date	24/02/2023
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	Waste Disposal: Monitoring
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 estimate she has made of when a mandatory digital waste tracking system will be operational in England.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	152201
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2023 answer text <p>We are working towards an operational digital waste tracking service from 2024 dependent on the development of the IT and the transition needs of businesses. We will be issuing a government response to our consultation on the implementation of mandatory digital waste tracking in the Spring.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 01/03/2023 11:16:43 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1589143

registered interest
date	24/02/2023
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	Waste Disposal: Monitoring
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 discussions she has had with the (a) Scottish Government, (b) Welsh Government and (c) Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs in Northern Ireland on the development of a central digital waste tracking service.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	152202
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2023 answer text <p>The service we are developing will be UK wide and the project is a great example of joint working, with representatives from the devolved governments engaged in the development and decision making on a regular basis.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 01/03/2023 11:12:01 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1523679

registered interest
date	18/10/2022
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	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 the Government is on track to eliminate waste crime by 2043.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	65637
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2022 answer text <p>HM Government is committed to tackling waste crime and we are preparing significant reforms to continue to increase the pressure on illegal waste operators.</p><p> </p><p>Our planned electronic waste tracking reforms will make it harder than ever to misidentify waste or dispose of it inappropriately. Planned changes to the Carriers, Brokers and Dealers licensing regime will modernise licensing and make it harder still for rogue operators to escape detection. We have also consulted on reforming waste exemptions which are often used to hide criminal activity, and will publish our response later this year.</p><p> </p><p>These will come in addition to measures in the Environment Act 2021 which gives agencies stronger powers of entry and access to evidence in prosecuting waste crime, and existing powers we have already given the regulator in recent years to tackle illegal waste sites, including the ability to lock sites and to force rogue operators to clean up all their waste</p><p> </p><p>As per our commitment in our landmark Resources &amp; Waste Strategy, the Joint Unit for Waste Crime has been set up to disrupt serious and organised waste crime and reduce its impact on the economy, the environment and local communities. Through shared intelligence and enforcement, the Joint Unit is identifying, disrupting and deterring criminals and making them pay for the damage they have done to communities and the environment. In the two years since the Joint Unit for Waste Crime launched it has worked with over 50 partner organisations and engaged in 74 multi-agency days of action, which have resulted in 52 associated arrests by other agencies.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 25/10/2022 13:30:12 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1484739

registered interest
date	29/06/2022
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, pursuant to the Answer of 23 June 2022 to Question 18814 on Joint Unit for Waste Crime: Staff, what are the roles of the 14 staff who work at the Joint Unit on Waste Crime as on 29 June 2022.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	27548
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2022 answer text <p>1 x Manager</p><p>1 x Senior Team leader</p><p>1 x Technical officer</p><p>8 x Environmental Crime Officers</p><p>1 x Digital researcher</p><p>1 x Communications and engagement officer</p><p>1 x HMRC intelligence officer</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 04/07/2022 08:10:23 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1484741

registered interest
date	29/06/2022
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 Management
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 22 June 2022 to Question 18820 on Waste Management, when he plans to implement reforms to the waste carrier, broker, dealer regime.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	27549
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2022 answer text <p>We expect to publish the response to the recent consultation in due course.</p> answering member constituency St Austell and Newquay answering member printed Steve Double question first answered 11/07/2022 16:46:48 answering member 4452 label Biography information for Steve Double
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1484743

registered interest
date	29/06/2022
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 Disposal: 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, pursuant to the Answer of 23 June 2022 to Question 18812 on Joint Unit for Waste Crime, how many and what proportion of those associated arrests led to (a) prosecutions and (b) successful prosecutions.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	27551
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2022 answer text <p>These arrests were carried out by other agencies for non-waste crime offences so this is not data held by the Joint Unit for Waste Crime.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 04/07/2022 08:14:05 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1473186

registered interest
date	24/06/2022
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, pursuant to the Answer of 23 June 2022 to Question 18812, on Joint Unit for Waste Crime, what the meaning of associated arrests is.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	24554
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2022 answer text <p>'Associated arrests' relates to arrests carried out by other agencies during the investigation, but as a direct result of the activity either at the location of the intervention or as a result of intelligence gained during the intervention. For example, by the police for offences including theft, handling stolen goods, etc.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 29/06/2022 07:54:11 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1470615

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
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