FOI request (FOIR-172634293)

Waste Enforcement Statistics 2019

Requested Wed 05 February 2020
Responded  Thu 26 March 2020

Could you provide me with the below information on Waste Enforcement from 1st January 2019 to 31st December 2019.

A. Fly Tipping

1. What is the full and discounted price for a fly-tipping (S33 EPA 1990) FPN?

2. How many FPNs issued under s33 EPA 1990 for fly-tipping?

3. How many FPN paid for fly-tipping? (Could you break the figure down into full payment and discounted payment. I do not want the revenue, just figures)

4. how many prosecutions undertaken for fly-tipping?

B. Business Duty of Care

1. What is the full and discounted price for a failure to provide transfer notes (S34 EPA 1990) FPN?

2. How many business duty of care inspections did you complete?

3. How many notices issued under s34 EPA 1990 to businesses asking them to produce waste transfer notes.

4. How many FPNs issued under s34 EPA 1990 for failing to provide waste transfer notes?

5. How many FPNs paid for failing to provide waste transfer notes? (Could you break the figure down into full payment and discounted payment. (I do not want the revenue, just figures)

6. How many prosecutions undertaken for failing to provide waste transfer notes?

C. Commercial Waste

1. What is the full and discounted price for a failure to comply with s47 EPA 1990 notice FPN?

2. How many notices issued to businesses under s47 EPA 1990 - Commercial Waste Receptacles?

3. How many FPNs issued to businesses for failing to comply with a s47 EPA 1990 notice?

4. How many FPNs paid for failing to comply with a s47 notice? (Could you break the figure down into full payment and discounted payment. I do not want the revenue, just figures)

5. How many prosecutions undertaken for failing to comply with a section 47 EPA 1990 notice.

D. Household Duty of Care

1. What is the full and discounted price for a household duty of care (s34 2A EPA 1990) FPN?

2. How many FPNs issued under s34 2A for householder duty of care?

3. How many FPNs paid for s34 2A household duty of care? (Could you break the figure down into full payment and discounted payment. I do not want the revenue, just figures)

4. How many prosecutions undertaken for householder duty of care?

E. Waste Carrier

1. What is the full and discounted price for a failure to produce a waste carrier licence (s.5C(3) Control of Pollution (Amendment) Act 1989) FPN?

2. How many FPNs issued under for failing to produce a Waste Carrier Licence?

3. How many FPNs paid for failing to produce a waste carrier licence? (Could you break the figure down into full payment and discounted payment. I do not want the revenue, just figures)

4. How many prosecutions undertaken for failing to produce a waste carrier licence?

5. What is the full and discounted price for a failure to produce waste transfer notes as a waste carrier (s.73A EPA 1990) FPN?

6. How many FPNs issued under for failing to produce Waste Transfer Notes as a Waste Carrier?

7. How many FPNs paid for failing to produce waste transfer notes as a waste carrier? (Could you break the figure down into full payment and discounted payment. (I do not want the revenue, just figures)

8. How many prosecutions undertaken for failing to produce Waste Transfer Notes as a Waste Carrier?

F. PACE Interview

1. How many doorstep interviews did the authority complete?

2. How many recorded interviews did the authority complete?

3. How many section 108 notices did the authority issue?

4. How many of the issued section 108 notices were breached?

Response

A. Fly Tipping

1. Fly Tipping offences as treated by issue of Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs) are either £200 or £400 with no reduced rate. The different amount depends on if the issue is trade waste or residential or perhaps a 2nd offence.

2. 4 FPNs in the time specified

3. 4

4. No prosecutions

B. Business Duty of Care

1. £300 reduced to £180

2. 30

3. 20

4. 2

5. 2

6. Nil

C. Commercial Waste

1. £80 no discount

2. 15

3. 2

4. 2

5. Nil.

D. Household Duty of Care

1. Yet to be determined - this means it does not feature in our current enforcement policy.

2. Nil

3. N/A

4. Nil

E. Waste Carrier

This is dealt with by East Sussex County Council, please visit their website for further information: www.eastsussex.gov.uk

F. PACE Interview

1. Information not held.

2. No PACE interviews within the Warden Service

3. Nil in the Warden Service

4. Nil