Question follow-through · 73245
Canals: Closures
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many miles of canal have been closed for navigation due to water shortages in 2025.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 29 Aug 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 8 Sept 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
29 Aug 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many miles of canal have been closed for navigation due to water shortages in 2025.
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Sept 2025
Answer published
The country’s largest navigation authority, the Canal and River Trust, reports that the prolonged period of dry weather this spring and summer has led to a number of restrictions and closures across its 2,000-mile inland waterway network. As well as low w...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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