Question follow-through · 82754
Canal and River Trust
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of (a) funding for the Canal & River Trust to maintain and improve England’s waterways and (b) the long-term funding arra
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 16 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 23 Oct 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of (a) funding for the Canal & River Trust to maintain and improve England’s waterways and (b) the long-term funding arra
20 Oct 2025
Target answer date
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23 Oct 2025
Answer published
The Government is currently providing the Canal and River Trust with a 15-year grant (2012-2027) totalling about £740 million to support maintenance of the canal network infrastructure. When it was set up in 2012, the Government also provided the Trust wi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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