Clause 103 — Sections 101 And 102: Supplementary

Part of Orders of the Day — Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Bill – in the House of Commons at 8:28 pm on 21 February 2005.

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Photo of Nicholas Winterton Nicholas Winterton Conservative, Macclesfield 8:28, 21 February 2005

My hon. Friend is making an interesting case, but because of my other activities in this place and because I was not on the Standing Committee, much of this is new to me. Does she accept that fly-tipping and dumping—dumping cars in the countryside, for instance—and other antisocial acts are a result of people behaving badly? Does she agree that the way in which to deal with that is to impose firm and severe penalties on those who are identified and taken to court for such offences? I have not heard what we will do about offences that desecrate the countryside.

When I go home on a Thursday night, the first thing I do on Friday morning is clean up the litter outside my house—litter dumped not by the local authority, not by government, but by people who do not appreciate the value of the countryside, or people in urban areas who do not appreciate the environment in which they live.