Your Square Mile – The Big Society

There are 93,000 square miles in the UK. We tend to only hear about two of them, the square miles of the City and Westminster, and have felt badly let down by both of them in recent years.

“Your Square Mile” is about enabling citizens to make changes in as many of the other . . . → Read More: Your Square Mile – The Big Society

British Waterways House of Commons debate

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

House of Commons debates, 24 June 2010, 10:30 am

Tristram Hunt (Stoke-on-Trent Central, Labour)

What plans she (Caroline Spellman, Secretary of State) has for the future of British Waterways.

Richard Benyon (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Natural Environment and Fisheries), Environment, Food and Rural . . . → Read More: British Waterways House of Commons debate

Inland Waterways: Repairs and Maintenance

Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Written answers and statements, 23 June 2010

Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North, Labour)

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what expenditure British Waterways has incurred on maintaining and developing waterway network infrastructure in each of the last 10 years; what proportion of such expenditure . . . → Read More: Inland Waterways: Repairs and Maintenance

Parliament gives some clues to future of waterways…

During the EFRA Question Time that took place in Parliament on 24 June 2010

First a statement by Richard Benyon, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs;

“I am pleased to be appointed as Waterways Minister as I am familiar with the public benefits the waterways provide and I am . . . → Read More: Parliament gives some clues to future of waterways…