Overview
- The government’s Waste Crime Action Plan will let courts ban repeat fly-tippers from driving by applying the 12-points-in-three-years disqualification rule.
- Courts can add 3 to 9 penalty points for each fly-tipping conviction, which then stack with points for offences like speeding or phone use toward a driving ban.
- The DVLA maintains more than 53 million driver records and 47 million vehicle records in Great Britain, providing the data needed to enforce licence bans.
- Councils in England recorded 1.26 million fly-tipping incidents in 2024–25, with 62% involving household waste, underscoring the scale of the problem.
- The Liberal Democrats called for an independent review of waste crime and for the National Crime Agency to take on the most serious investigations.