| Heading: |
Waste: Crime |
| Question ID: |
1816463 |
| UIN: |
62632 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-25 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4358 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Wendy Morton
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| Asking Member handle: |
morton_wendy
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@morton_wendy
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has made an estimate of the annual profits generated by organised criminals who engage in waste crime. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-02 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1579 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Mary Creagh
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| Answering Member handle: |
marycreagh_
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@marycreagh_
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
It is estimated that waste crime costs the UK economy around £1 billion per year. However, it is impossible to assess how much of this is “profit” for organised criminals. |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |