Written question asked by Lord Pickles (Conservative) on Tuesday, 18 December 2007, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 7 January 2008. It was answered by Jonathan Shaw (Labour) on Monday, 14 January 2008 on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Environment Protection: Fixed Penalties

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 29 November 2007, Official Report, column 676W, on environment protection: fixed penalties, which legislation the fines in 2005-06 were issued under.

Answer: I have been asked to reply.The fixed penalty notices, to which the answer of 29 November 2007 refers, were issued under the following legislation:"section 88 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 for litter offences;""section 4 of the Dogs (Fouling of Land Act) 1996 and section 59 of the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act for dogs-related offences;""section 43 of the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003 for graffiti and fly-posting; and""section 8 of the Noise Act 1996 for noise."A breakdown of the statistics collected by the Department on local authorities' use of fixed penalty notices is available on the Defra website.

Secondary information

Type: Written question
Reference: 470 c946W; 176844
Session: 2007-08
Related items: Environment Protection: Fixed Penalties
Thursday, 29 November 2007
Written questions
House of Commons
Subjects: Fixed penalties Environment protection
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