AQW 278/22-27 Written question to the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs for an update on progress towards publishing a litter strategy for Northern Ireland by 2024.
Asked by John Blair MLA on 20 May 2022
- Answered
- Written
- After due date
- Tabled
- 20 May 2022
- Answer due by
- 8 June 2022
- Answered
- 9 June 202220 days after tabling
- Priority question
- No
Answer
I can confirm that my Department completed the public consultation on the Executive’s draft Environment Strategy on 18 January 2022. This included my proposal to publish Northern Ireland’s first overarching Litter Strategy by 2024, which will consider and propose a range of detailed actions to help tackle the scourge of litter here.
Officials have begun progressing this substantive piece of work and I fully expect to have Northern Ireland’s first Litter Strategy published by the end of 2024.