Boats: Environment Protection
Commons · Question 21939 · Tabled 3 Jan 2025 · Department for Transport · Official record
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Question
Asked by Ben Maguire
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps her Department has taken to (a) reduce the number of abandoned leisure boats and (b) mitigate environmental damage from those boats.
Answer
Answered by Mike Kane, 13 Jan 2025
The department has taken no recent steps to address either of the two issues raised in the question. The department has issued advice in the port marine safety code around the issue of abandoned vessels, but that advice is aimed at vessels which pose a th...