Question reference: S5W-35885
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 10 March 2021
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Current status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 19 March 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what impact the recent cyber-attack that was experienced by SEPA has had on the agency’s ability to record levels of fly-tipping, and what information it has regarding the trend in the number of fly-tipping incidents since the attack.
Answer
The cyber-attack has affected the way that SEPA works. SEPA’s Dumb Dumpers phone line was switched off immediately after the cyber-attack and SEPA’s website redirects all fly-tipping reports to the Zero Waste Scotland Dumb Dumpers Stop Line online form.
However, Zero Waste Scotland records show that between 24 December 2020 and 16 March 2021, there have been 502 reports of fly tipping through the online Dumb Dumpers form.