Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 105017

Inland Waterways

Tabled: 12 January 2026
Answered: 15 January 2026
Named Day

Question

Helen Morgan

Liberal DemocratNorth Shropshire

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.

Answer

Emma Hardy
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...

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