Research and analysis

Environment Agency 2023 data on regulated businesses in England

Data on compliance ratings, pollution inventory, pollution incidents, enforcement and waste crime for 2023.

Applies to England

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These datasets support the聽Environment Agency Chief Regulator鈥檚 report 2023-24.

Compliance ratings for waste and installation permits

罢丑别听聽on data.gov.uk contains compliance ratings for all waste and installation permits. We use compliance ratings to help assess the risks from a regulated facility. It helps us identify the operators and facilities that pose a higher risk to the environment and where we need to spend more time regulating and carrying out compliance assessments. Ratings A and B indicate good performance whilst bands D, E and F indicate poor performance.

Pollution inventory

罢丑别听聽on data.gov.uk contains information from the聽pollution inventory聽for each release type (to air, land and waste transfers off-site). The data is grouped by sector for the industrial activities we regulate.

Pollution incidents

The pollution incidents dataset attached to this page provides information about incidents that met our category 1 and 2 impact criteria for those reported in 2023. These are the most serious environmental incidents we deal with.

Compliance assessment

罢丑别听听补苍诲听聽datasets on data.gov.uk contain details of compliance assessments and breaches of permits.

Enforcement action

罢丑别听聽on data.gov.uk contains details of prosecutions for all the regimes we regulate. Find out more about our聽position on enforcement and sanctions.

Waste crime

The waste crime summary dataset attached to this page contains details of the numbers, types and activities associated with illegal waste sites, large-scale illegal dumping and illegal waste exports.

罢丑别听聽on data.gov.uk contains information about our waste crime investigation work and outcomes.

罢丑别听聽on data.gov.uk contains all incidents of illegal dumping (fly-tipping) reported to us. Illegal dumping means the illegal deposit of liquid or solid waste on land, not covered by a permit or exemption.

Use of this data

We鈥檝e made the data on this page available to members of the public for information. We鈥檝e published each dataset under either the聽聽or the聽Environment Agency conditional licence. Each dataset states the licence it鈥檚 published under. If you use the information you must meet the conditions of the relevant licence.

Updates to this page

Published 17 January 2025

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