{"value":{"id":170148,"memberId":2202,"member":null,"memberRole":"Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ","uin":"HLWS101","dateMade":"2014-12-15T00:00:00","answeringBodyId":13,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs","title":"Correction to Lords Written Answer","text":"<p>During a recent review of the annual fly-tipping data for England, it has come to my attention that an IT error by a local authority led to some inaccurate regional data being supplied to Defra, regarding the number of vehicle seizures for fly-tipping offences. The matter has now been resolved and the data has been checked.</p><p>The erroneous data was used in response to parliamentary question UIN HL7002 answered on 14 May 2014, Official report, Column 542W.</p><p>To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the provision in the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 on stop, search and seizure of vehicles suspected of involvement in fly-tipping has been commenced; and, if so, how many vehicles have been seized under that provision. HL [7002]</p><p>I wish to replace the reply I gave with the following:</p><p>In 2014/15 we plan to commence the revised powers under the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 in respect of the stop, search and seizure of vehicles. Local Authorities and the Environment Agency have similar powers under the Control of Pollution (Amendment) Act 1989. Local Authorities have reported to Flycapture, the national flytipping database, that 576 vehicles have been seized since April 2008.</p><p>I apologise for any confusion this inaccuracy may have caused.</p><p> </p>","house":"Lords","noticeNumber":0,"hasAttachments":false,"hasLinkedStatements":false,"linkedStatements":null,"attachments":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Statements/170148","method":"GET"}]}