Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask His Majesty's Government what duties the Canal and River Trust has with regard to people whose boat is their permanent and only home.

The Canal and River Trust is an independent charity, and the Government does not have a role in its management or operational decisions. The Trust’s charitable objects relate to the preservation of our inland waterways for public benefit, particularly for navigation, walking, and other forms of recreation, rather than the provision of permanent accommodation for private individuals, and the Trust’s boat licensing regime has no requirement to declare what a boat is used for or how many people are occupying it.