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19 November, 2010 PETER GRUNER of the Islington Tribune reports: A LEADING Islington waterways campaigner has called on London Mayor Boris Johnson to take over the running of the capital’s network of canals in order to secure their future. Del Brenner, chairman of the Regent’s Canal Network and a member of the Mayor’s Thames and . . . → Read More: Calls for Mayor Boris Johnson to take over London’s canal network 19 November 2010 William Surman of the Farmers Guardian reports: THE Treasury has awarded Defra a £100 million ‘bonus’ for agreeing to an early settlement on its spending cuts during the Comprehensive Spending Review, it emerged this week. Caroline Spelman, the Defra Secretary, said the bonus was a ‘very important feature of our settlement’ when . . . → Read More: Treasury gives Defra £100 million ‘bonus’ House of Commons, November 11th 2010 Andrea Leadsom South Northamptonshire, Conservative asked the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what consideration she has given to continuing her Department’s funding of British Waterways. Richard Benyon Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Natural Environment and Fisheries, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Newbury, Conservative, replied: The . . . → Read More: British Waterways: Parliamentary question on NWC funding At its meeting on 19th November the Members of the Broads Authority will consider a report from the Chief Executive setting out a plan as to how the Authority can continue to deliver its core services while responding to advice from Ministers that national parks should prepare for a 30% reduction in their grant. The . . . → Read More: The Broads Authority’s Way Forward following the Spending Review 11 November 2010 Proceedings in Parliament Ann McKechin (Glasgow North, Labour) To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether she had discussions with the Scottish Executive on her proposal for the transfer to a mutual trust of assets held by British Waterways in Scotland. Richard Benyon (Parliamentary Under Secretary . . . → Read More: British Waterways: Scotland decides not to be part of new charity Once the butt of jokes about shopping trolleys and pollution, canals have, over the last decade, become an important focus for urban and rural renewal. Half of our waterways flow through government priority areas for investment and regeneration, and British Waterways is influencing and enabling an estimated £10 billion worth of projects to revive waterfronts . . . → Read More: Canals as a focus for community renewal Thursday 14 October 2010 Louise Nousratpour of LifeStyle reports that: A government decision to turn British Waterways into a charity could threaten the future of the country’s network of canals and its vital work in flood prevention, unions warned today. Under wider plans to cull nearly 200 quangos, the government decided to move the body . . . → Read More: Union says BW Charity Plan Spells Disaster Tuesday 19 October 2010 16.30 BST From Martin Wainwright in the Guardian: British Waterways set on course its own abolition before last week’s quango cull, writes Martin Wainwright If there was one chirrup from the government’s bonfire of the quangos last week, it will have come from British Waterways, which has been pressing for its . . . → Read More: Making the cut on Britain’s canals 20th Oct 2010 Against the backdrop of forthcoming major budget cuts to publicly-funded waterways, a conference planned by AINA – the Association of Inland Navigation Authorities – will address in particular, the Government’s decision to transfer the waterways in England and Wales which are cared for by British Waterways to a new charitable body – . . . → Read More: AINA conference to focus on future for inland waterways * From The Guardian, Saturday 16 October 2010 Robin Evans, CEO of British Waterways writes: I find myself in the unusual position of being the head of a public body that has welcomed – and indeed called for – its own abolition (Quango review sees five major bodies becoming charities, 14 October). Before anyone rushes . . . → Read More: CEO of British Waterways writes to the Guardian |
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