[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> The danger now is that money is taken from BW for flood defences.
> >
> >...or possibly from the EA navigation budget which has so far escaped
> >relatively unscathed.
> Well, only due to sleight of hand.
> EA discovered that it had, er, forgotten (for years) to budget for the
> occasional replacement of life-expired structures. When it said to
> DEFRA that it would therefore have to have a significantly larger
> annual budget, DEFRA said "Up to you, mate".
> So the budget has gone up, at the expense of the boaters, rather than
> being cut, at the expense of EA. The outcome is much the same,
> though.
I am aware that there has been some 'interesting' accounting going on. But as
yet there hasn't been anything comparable to the £5m or so of work already
scheduled as part of last winter's BW work programme that had to be postponed.
That was what I meant by 'relatively'. Let's see how well this winter's planned
EA programme survives.
Martin
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