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British Waterways funding for 2008-9


MartinClark

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Defra has announced its funding for 2008-9 for the bodies under its wing, including BW and EA.

 

British Waterways is to receive approximately the same amount as last year - i.e. a "flat cash" settlement (£56.6m). As this does not allow for inflation, it is in effect a cut in real terms, but can be seen as moderately good news as there was always the possibility of further cuts as happened in 2006 and 2007.

 

See www.saveourwaterways.org.uk/news

 

The Waterways minister hinted to waterways groups in December that "flat cash" funding was a likely outcome and this has now been confirmed. EA has not yet said what proportion of its grant will go to its navigations.

 

Although things could have been worse, it still leaves BW considerably short of the money it needs, so please continue to lobby MPs and support the ongoing campaigns of IWA, other user groups and SOW.

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In this mornings "Guardian" it reports on considerable spending cuts in canals amongst other departments. It states that the British Waterways funding has been cut yet again from £48.5m to £34.1m.

It makes the future look very bleak.

 

The Guardian has the figures wrong.

 

BW will get £34.1 million from Defra for "Resources" and £22.524 million for "Capital", making a total of £56.624 million. The Grauniad forgot to include the Capital element of the grant. The total of £56.624 million is very slightly up on last year's comparable figure of £56.4 million.

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Anyone got the figures handy for what they spent it on last year?

towpath improvements for the ramblers anglers cyclists very expesive canalside "art"some waste bins at a grand a time feasabilty studies into how to extract more money from boaters mega money for advertising campaign to get more people to visit the local canals in fact anything as long as its got nowt to do with them moaning and whinging boater`s :D

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