HL Deb 05 March 1992 vol 536 c32WA
Lord Broughan

and Vaux asked Her Majesty's Government:

What the financing will be for the British Waterways Board for 1991–92.

Baroness Blatch

We are announcing today that we have increased the External Finance Limit for the British Waterways Board to £51.7 million for 1991–92. This is enabling the board to spend an additional sum of up to £3 million on canal maintenance. The increase is being financed through expenditure savings identified elsewhere within the Department of the Environment, and will not add to the planned total of public expenditure.