River Thames: Safety
Commons · Question 71872 · Tabled 29 Aug 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 8 Sep 2025
Question
Asked by Joshua Reynolds
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will take steps to help ensure that staffing levels of lock keepers and river infrastructure on the non-tidal River Thames are sufficient to guarantee public and oper
Answer
Answered by Emma Hardy, 8 Sep 2025
Ensuring public and operator safety on the non-tidal River Thames is a priority for the Environment Agency (EA). The EA is investing in additional lock and weir resource.