{"value":{"id":1764483,"askingMemberId":5186,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2025-02-11T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2025-02-13T00:00:00","uin":"30870","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of illegal fly-tipping on agricultural activity.","answeringBodyId":13,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":1579,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2025-02-19T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The department does not intend to assess the potential impact of illegal fly-tipping on agricultural activity<strong>. </strong>The Government understands the difficulty that fly-tipping poses to all landowners. We have committed to forcing fly-tippers and vandals to clean up the mess that they have created and will provide further details on this in due course.</p><p> </p><p>We continue to work with stakeholders, such as the National Farmers Union and local authorities, through the National Fly-Tipping Prevention Group to share good practice, including how to prevent fly-tipping on private land. Various practical tools, including case studies and ‘how to’ guides on key issues such as setting up effective local partnerships, are available from their webpage at: <a href=\"https://www.keepbritaintidy.org/national-fly-tipping-prevention-group\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.keepbritaintidy.org/national-fly-tipping-prevention-group</a>.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Fly-tipping: Agriculture","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1764483","method":"GET"}]}