Question follow-through · 105017
Inland Waterways
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has produced a recent risk assessment for the impact of canal embankment breaches on narrowboats.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 12 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 15 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 15 Jan 2026 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has produced a recent risk assessment for the impact of canal embankment breaches on narrowboats.
15 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Jan 2026
Answer published
Responsibility for the safe operation of canals rests with the navigation authorities. In the case of the Canal and River Trust, Defra officials meet the Trust’s senior management team to discuss the Trust’s work and use of the Government grant funding, a...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Inland Waterways: Finance
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Horses: Import Controls
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Horses: Trade Barriers
14 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will meet with representatives of the horse breeding industry from North Shropshire to discuss the impact of import and export processes on their businesses.
Floods: Shropshire
19 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the accuracy of data provided by flood gauges in Shropshire.
Floods: Warnings
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Agriculture: Imports
2 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changing US to UK import levels of (a) wheat, (b) maize and (c) ethanol on (i) food security and (b) agricultural businesses.
Agriculture: Imports
2 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to support British food producers facing competition from increased imports following the UK-US Economic Prosperity Deal.
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Sheep: Livestock Industry
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Sheep: Livestock Industry
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Flood Control: Finance
11 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to her letter to the Environmental Audit Committee dated 30 January 2026, what steps she is taking to increase funding for flood risk management in local authority areas