Mr Patsy McGlone (Mid Ulster): To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, pursuant to AQW 44514/22-27, to detail any enforcement action that was taken following investigations by the NI Environment Agency Environmental Crime Unit on illegal waste sites, in each of the last five years.
Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs: Please see tables below for enforcement action taken following investigations by The Environmental Crime Unit during the last five financial years.
| 2025/2026 | 2024/2025 | 2023/2024 | 2022/2023 | 2021/2022 | |
| Warning Letters | 82 | 44 | 47 | 55 | 65 |
| Art 27 Notices | 9 | 21 | 26 | 29 | 16 |
| Art 44 Notices | 5 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 |
| Fixed Penalty Notices | 26 | 6 | 12 | 5 | 13 |
| Files to PPS | 1 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| Prosecutions | 2 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Financial Year | Number of Confiscation Orders granted. | Confiscation Order Amounts |
| 2021-22 | 1 | £177,123.53 |
| 2022-23 | 1 | £236,544.00 |
| 2023-24 | 1 | £20,000 |
| 2024-25 | 1 | £16,516.14 |
| 2025-26 | 4 | £573,357.25 |
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