Westminster Hall — sitting of 23 June 2026: transcript & video

15:27 - 15:40

Speaker 1

Order.

Just before I call Melanie On, any honorable members who wish to take their jackets off have permission to do so. Melanie On to move the motion.

15:40 - 16:42

Speaker 2

Thank you very much, Mr. Stringer. It's a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship today and to see so many colleagues here to participate in this important debate. I would like to thank the Backbench Business Committee for allowing me to hold this debate and to the colleagues who supported me in that application. When people talk about fly-tipping, it's often discussed as an environmental issue, a waste management issue, or a question of local authority enforcement. And of course, it is all of those things.

But in communities like mine, and I'm sure in communities across the whole country, it's also something much more fundamental. It's about pride. It's about belonging and whether people feel really good about the place that they call home. Residents often tell me that they're so tired of seeing mattresses dumped in alleyways, household waste abandoned on street corners, and green spaces treated as rubbish tips. They're not isolated incidents.

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