Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2018 to Question 155833 on Shipping: Bristol Channel, what amount and proportion of the Waterborne Freight Grant for coastal shipping was taken up in each year since it was introduced.

The Waterborne Freight Grant (WFG) scheme does not have a discrete budget but shares funding with the Mode Shift Revenue Support scheme for rail and inland waterway freight.

The current version of the scheme dates back to April 2010. Payments made in respect of freight moved in each year since then (though not necessarily paid within that year) are shown in the table below. These include a grant made under the previous version of the scheme.