Official bodies must act in real time when environmental crime happens, a committee has been told.
Baroness Shas Sheehan, chairwoman of the Environment and Climate Change Committee, accused the Environment Agency, local authorities and the police of doing nothing when cases of illegal waste dumping were reported to them.
Speaking as a £15m clean-up operation to remove waste continued at Hoads Wood, in Kent, she highlighted BBC reports which brought attention to the matter.
Environment Agency chief executive Philip Duffy denied organisations did not act when they were informed of dumped rubbish.
