{"value":{"id":1836769,"askingMemberId":4407,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2025-10-10T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2025-10-14T00:00:00","uin":"78263","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the Environment Agency’s budget is for tackling illegal waste activity in the financial year 2025-26.","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":"2025-10-17T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>This financial year, the Government committed £12 million to the Environment Agency (EA) to fight waste crime. This is an additional £2 million to the £10 million it received in previous years. The funding will continue to afford resource of approximately 240 full-time equivalent across the EA to target waste crime; it is spent on specialised staff, such as enforcement officers, intelligence officers, financial investigators, and disclosure officers.</p><p> </p><p>The EA also received £3 million for 2025/26 to enforce new duties introduced this year including the new Packaging Extended Producer Responsibility requirements. This helps to fund resources towards operational staff to tackle serious and significant offending.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Fly-tipping","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1836769","method":"GET"}]}