Response A1345264

Response to request for information

Response date

11 June 2021

Request

1. For the last financial year (2020-2021) how many fines or fixed penalty notices did your authority issue for fly-tipping?

   • How many were paid/unpaid?

   • What was the total revenue received from these fines or FPNs? (actually received by your authority)

   • What is the total amount (in £s) unpaid after 30 days?

   • How much was spent on issuing these fines?

2. For the last financial year (2020-2021) how many times did your authority prosecute individuals or businesses for fly-tipping?

   • How many resulted in convictions?

   • Was any revenue received as compensation?

   • Was any revenue received as costs?

   • How much was spent on these prosecutions?

   • What is the total amount of compensation awarded unpaid?

   • 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. For the last financial year (2020-2021) how many fines or fixed penalty notices did your authority issue for fly-tipping? 58 (less 7 that were issued and then cancelled)
   

   • How many were paid/unpaid? Paid 42 (£8,320), unpaid 5, written off 2, withdrawn 1.

   • What was the total revenue received from these fines or FPNs? (actually received by your authority) £8,320

   • What is the total amount (in £s) unpaid after 30 days? 5 x £400 full rate = £2,000

   • How much was spent on issuing these fines? 9 were issued by the council officers these cost £1518.608 in officer and admin times. The remainder were issued by a agents on a concessionary contract meaning no cost to the Council.

2. For the last financial year (2020-2021) how many times did your authority prosecute individuals or businesses for fly-tipping? Nil
   

   • How many resulted in convictions? Nil

   • Was any revenue received as compensation? Nil

   • Was any revenue received as costs? Nil

   • How much was spent on these prosecutions? Nil

   • What is the total amount of compensation awarded unpaid? Nil

   • What is the total amount of costs awarded unpaid? Nil

3. For the last financial year (2020-2021) how many cases of fly-tipping did your authority deal with? 1,391
4. For the last financial year (2020-2021), what was the total cost to your authority of dealing with cleaning up fly-tipping?
   1. For 2020-21, the amount for fly tip clearance was £44,538.57.
      In 2020-21, RBC had a major industrial fly tip which cost an additional £27,795 in disposal costs.
      Total of £72,333.57.
      With the commercial-based fly tip which we don’t usually have, this has skewed the costings for 2020-21, without it, clearance costs for the last 3 years have been:
      
      2019-20= £37,589.43
      2020-21= £44,538.57
      2021-22= £45,741.11
5. How many people live in your local authority area? 111,100
6. How many cases of fly-tipping were reported to your authority on private land? There are 10 records that are recorded as private land.