Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 95964

Dredging: Costs

Tabled: 1 December 2025
Answered: 9 December 2025

Question

Mr Richard Holden

Conservative — Basildon and Billericay

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate the Government has made of a) the annual cost to UK port operators of dredging and disposing of dredged material required to maintain navigational access, b) the proportion of those costs arising

Answer

Keir Mather
a) Information relating to the annual cost to UK port operators of dredging and disposing of dredged material required to maintain navigational access is not held centrally.b) The costs arising from the disposal levies and monitoring fees for last three ...
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