Canal and River Trust: Finance
(asked on 9th December 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of guaranteeing funding for the Canal and River Trust for the next five years.
Answered by
Rebecca Pow
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 17th January 2023
The Government currently provides an annual grant of £52.6 million to the Canal and River Trust. The grant was agreed, and guaranteed until 2027, when the Trust was established as a private sector charity in 2012 to replace the publicly owned British Waterways.