Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 42684

Inland Waterways: East of England

Tabled: 31 March 2025
Answered: 10 April 2025

Question

Blake Stephenson

Conservative — Mid Bedfordshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Water investment to unlock growth in East of England, published on 13 March 2025, if he will make an assessment of the potenti

Answer

Emma Hardy
The Government recognises the wide range of benefits brought by our inland waterways and is supportive in general of projects to restore and develop them, including where they form part of wider growth plans.