Fly-Tipping/Illegally Dumped Waste 2021 - Freedom of information requests
Title or Description
Fly-Tipping/Illegally Dumped Waste 2021
FOI Number
15269
Date Received
27/05/2021
Type of Request
EIR
Request or Question
1)a. For the last financial year (2020-2021) how many fines or fixed penalty notices did your authority issue for fly-tipping?b. How many were paid/unpaid?c. What was the total revenue received from these fines or FPNs? (i.e. actually received by your authority)d. What is the total amount (in £s) unpaid after 30 days?
e. How much was spent on issuing these fines?
2)
a. For the last financial year (2020-2021) how many times did your authority prosecute individuals or businesses for fly-tipping?
b. How many resulted in convictions?
c. Was any revenue received as compensation?
d. Was any revenue received as costs?
e. How much was spent on these prosecutions?
f. What is the total amount of compensation awarded unpaid?
g. What is the total amount of costs awarded unpaid?
3) For the last financial year (2020-2021) how many cases of fly-tipping did your authority deal with?
4) For the last financial year (2020-2021), what was the total cost to your authority of dealing with cleaning up fly-tipping?
5) How many people live in your local authority area?
6) How many cases of fly-tipping were reported to your authority on private land?
Response
1 and 2. Scottish Borders Council have not issued any fines or fixed penalty notices or prosecuted individuals or businesses for fly-tipping.
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4. Some of the information you have requested cannot be provided because Scottish Borders Council do not hold it and therefore we give notice under 10(4)(a) of EI(S)SR 2004. Records are not kept of specific costs dealing with fly-tipping, as the work is done as part of daily duties by staff.
