§ Mr. Laurence RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will review the legislation governing fly tipping. [42490]
§ Angela EagleThe Environment Agency has made clear its commitment to taking firm enforcement action on fly-tipping and we have no plans to review the already stringent controls. The main controls and the maximum penalties for contravention of those controls are set out in the following table:
All information shown is taken from Note 10 to the annual accounts of the Legal Aid Board for each of the last five years. Interest accrued to the given date is recorded here.
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£000 Date Total value of quantified charges Of which, Interest bearing Interest accrued as at 31/3 of date shown1 interest recovered as at 31/3 of date shown2 1996–97 185,906 113,668 30,623 2,946 1995–96 170,516 98,790 23,987 2,124 1994–95 146,846 78,882 17,587 1,532 1993–94 128,872 62,132 12,517 1,085 1992–93 107,261 43,678 7,573 600 1 Interest received is paid back into the Fund for the benefit of public expenditure 2 These are voluntary repayments The following sets out cases where the Legal Aid Board has not yet received all the information necessary to quantify the charge.
£000 Date Number of cases Number of unquantified cases 1996–97 101 16 1995–96 99 17 1994–95 92 17 1993–94 86 17 1992–93 78 16