United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 66606
Waste: Crime
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10 July 2025
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18 July 2025 · Answer
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Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent estimate his Department has made of the annual cost to the public purse of (a) waste crime and (b) illegal waste exports.
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10 July 2025
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent estimate his Department has made of the annual cost to the public purse of (a) waste crime and (b) illegal waste exports.
Source: Commons
18 July 2025
Answer
The Environmental Services Association (ESA) estimated in 2021 that waste crime costs the economy in England about £1 billion per year of which at least £42 million per year could be attributed to illegal waste exports. (see here: ESA_Cost_of_Waste_Crime....
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-07-10/66606
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1821815
- uk · wq-1821815 · source updated 18 July 2025