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Written Question · S1W-22837 · Session 1

What the annual cost to public funds is of collecting and disposing of litter and fly-tipped rubbish.

Answered Asked by John Home Robertson Lab Lodged 7 Feb 2002

The question

To ask the Scottish Executive what the annual cost to public funds is of collecting and disposing of litter and fly-tipped rubbish.

The answer

Answered by Ross Finnie on 21 Feb 2002 · 14 days after it was lodged, on time

The information requested is not held centrally. Local authorities report expenditure to the Executive on various services within their cleansing budget. These are waste management, waste disposal, street cleaning and recycling. expenditure on litter and flytipping may come under any of the first three headings and is not disaggregated.

In the Official Report

No contribution in the Official Report cites S1W-22837 by reference.