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1079378

registered interest
date	28/02/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Tyres: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an assessment of the adequacy of his Department's policy on serving advisory notices on tyres found to be in a dangerous condition but which are not illegal at MOT examinations; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
uin	227051
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to improving road safety, and ensuring the compliance of vehicles with safety regulations is important to reducing collisions and casualties.</p><p>The condition of tyres is checked at the annual roadworthiness inspection and if they do not meet the standards the vehicle will fail. Advisory notices are issued by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency’s assessors as part of a heavy vehicle annual test, and by MOT testers as to items the driver should monitor.</p><p>The Department for Transport will consult on requirements for a maximum age for tyres on heavy goods vehicles, buses, coaches and minibuses, and how to enforce these new requirements will be considered as part of this process.</p><p>In September 2017, a heavy goods vehicle travelling on the M5 suffered a tyre blow-out and crossed the central reservation and collided with oncoming traffic. At the recent Coroner’s inquest independent experts testified that the age of the tyre was a factor. Their analysis fits with the Department’s own emerging body of evidence.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 05/03/2019 17:38:40 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

1079389

registered interest
date	28/02/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Shipping: Exhaust Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate he has made of the cost to the shipping industry of compliance with the International Maritime Organisation’s 0.5 per cent cap on the sulphur content of shipping exhaust emissions from 1 January 2020.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
tabling member printed	Karl Turner
uin	227080
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2019 answer text <p>The international nature of the shipping industry means that regulatory solutions to curb the environmental impacts of international shipping need to be delivered globally.</p><p> </p><p>The International Maritime Organization (IMO) undertook an extensive review before finalising the 2020 implementation date for the global limit. This review focused on whether sufficient fuel would be available in 2020, rather than the cost of compliance. At the time, the priority for the UK maritime sector was to confirm the date of application for the 0.5 per cent sulphur cap as early as possible, to allow shipowners enough time to prepare for the new limit.</p><p> </p><p>The UK played an active role in this work, and was instrumental in ensuring that IMO confirmed the date of application in October 2016, rather than in 2018 in order to provide industry with greater clarity and time to prepare.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 06/03/2019 13:01:21 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

1079390

registered interest
date	28/02/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Shipping: Exhaust Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what representations he has received from the shipping industry on the International Maritime Organisation’s 0.5 per cent cap on the sulphur content of shipping exhaust emissions from 1 January 2020.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
tabling member printed	Karl Turner
uin	227081
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government has regular meetings with key stakeholders in the maritime sector, such as through the Ministerial Maritime Working Group and the Clean Maritime Council, on a range of issues including sulphur. We also consult UK stakeholders on sulphur before any International Maritime Organization (IMO) committee or sub-committee which discusses the issue, so that we can take their views into account.</p><p> </p><p>Internationally some parts of industry have raised some technical and operational questions associated with the new limit, and the UK and other States are working hard with industry and NGO’s to resolve these issues at the IMO. Overall however, the shipping industry in the UK supports the introduction of the global sulphur cap in 2020, as an important step towards reducing the harmful effects on public health and the environment from air pollution.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 06/03/2019 13:08:41 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

1079391

registered interest
date	28/02/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Shipping: Exhaust Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to ensure that the shipping industry’s compliance with the International Maritime Organisation’s 0.5 per cent cap on the sulphur content of shipping exhaust emissions from 1 January 2020 does not have a negative effect on seafarer (a) employment and (b) pay.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
tabling member printed	Karl Turner
uin	227082
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2019 answer text <p>We are not aware of any impacts on seafarer employment or pay from the introduction of the 0.1% limit for the ECAs in 2015.</p><p> </p><p>Consequently, we do not expect any significant impact on seafarers from the introduction of the global cap, although we will keep this under review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 07/03/2019 12:38:20 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

1079392

registered interest
date	28/02/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Shipping: Exhaust Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has plans to allocate additional funding to the Maritime and Coastguard Agency to enabling the Agency to enforce the International Maritime Organisation’s 0.5 per cent cap on the sulphur content of shipping exhaust emissions from 1 January 2020.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
tabling member printed	Karl Turner
uin	227083
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2019 answer text <p>The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) remains committed to enforce the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) regulations to limit the sulphur content of fuel to 0.5%. To address these commitments, the MCA has already made amendments to its Port State Control regime and will enforce the fuel sulphur limits after 1st January 2020 using the powers in its Merchant Shipping regulations.</p><p> </p><p>These developments have been undertaken as business as usual for the Agency. Should additional guidance be produced by the IMO in early 2020 the MCA will review the funding available and adjust if necessary.</p><p> </p><p>Although the MCA has an interest in the mandatory equipment fitted to individual vessels on the UK Ship Register, the MCA has not identified a need to generate statistical information for the UK Ship Register as a whole, such as the number of vessels which are fitted with exhaust gas cleaning systems.</p><p> </p><p>The sulphur content of a vessel’s fuel is within the scope of the Port State Control inspection regime and therefore vessels on the UK Ship Register are subject to inspection and fuel sampling at such inspections. Again, the MCA has not identified a need to generate statistical information on the merchant vessels which have been subject to these inspections.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani grouped question UIN 227087 question first answered 07/03/2019 12:59:41 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

1079393

registered interest
date	28/02/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Shipping: Exhaust Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an estimate of the investment required by ports to provide access to alternative fuel sources in order to comply with international regulations on the greenhouse gas content of exhaust emissions from merchant shipping.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
tabling member printed	Karl Turner
uin	227084
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2019 answer text <p>The International Maritime Organization (IMO) Initial Strategy on Greenhouse Gas does not currently include specific regulatory requirements beyond high level objectives. The detailed requirements are now under development at the IMO and the UK is playing an active role in the debate.</p><p> </p><p>To inform these negotiations, the Department has commissioned external research that includes consideration of the need for alternative fuels and the potential impact on fuel infrastructure. This research will be completed in late Spring 2019 and will be used in further impact assessments as measures are developed at the IMO.</p><p> </p><p>The Government regularly engages with ports on environmental issues that affect the sector, including the provision of alternative fuels.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani grouped question UIN 227089 question first answered 07/03/2019 13:13:48 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

1079394

registered interest
date	28/02/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Shipping: Exhaust Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which ports with waste reception facilities are compliant with the International Maritime Organisation’s mandatory guidelines on exhaust gas cleaning systems; and when each of those ports was last inspected for compliance.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
tabling member printed	Karl Turner
uin	227085
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2019 answer text <p>The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) conducts inspections of UK ports against the approved Port Waste Management Plans held by them. These plans include the handling of exhaust gas cleaning residues. The inspections are conducted independently on each port, and the MCA has not observed a need to generate statistical information covering the entirety of UK ports.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 05/03/2019 16:54:42 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

1079395

registered interest
date	28/02/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Shipping: Exhaust Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many merchant vessels on the UK Ship Register use fuel which is compliant with the International Maritime Organisation’s 0.5 per cent cap on the sulphur content of shipping exhaust emissions from 1 January 2020.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
tabling member printed	Karl Turner
uin	227086
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2019 answer text <p>As the IMO 2020 requirements are not yet in force ships are not currently required to make use of compliant fuel and information on the use of 0.5% fuel is not being recorded. We would expect operators to begin moving into compliance in late 2019.</p><p> </p><p>All ships which operate in ECA designated waters have been using 0.1 per cent sulphur fuel since 2015 or an equivalent means of compliance. Whilst in these waters, these ships would be meeting the requirements of the 0.5 per cent global cap.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani grouped question UIN 227088 227090 227091 question first answered 05/03/2019 16:18:32 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

1079397

registered interest
date	28/02/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Shipping: Exhaust Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many merchant vessels on the UK Ship Register have been fitted with exhaust gas cleaning systems; and how many of those vessels have been inspected for compliance with the International Maritime Organisation’s 0.5 per cent cap on the sulphur content of shipping exhaust emissions to be introduced on 1 January 2020.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
tabling member printed	Karl Turner
uin	227087
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2019 answer text <p>The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) remains committed to enforce the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) regulations to limit the sulphur content of fuel to 0.5%. To address these commitments, the MCA has already made amendments to its Port State Control regime and will enforce the fuel sulphur limits after 1st January 2020 using the powers in its Merchant Shipping regulations.</p><p> </p><p>These developments have been undertaken as business as usual for the Agency. Should additional guidance be produced by the IMO in early 2020 the MCA will review the funding available and adjust if necessary.</p><p> </p><p>Although the MCA has an interest in the mandatory equipment fitted to individual vessels on the UK Ship Register, the MCA has not identified a need to generate statistical information for the UK Ship Register as a whole, such as the number of vessels which are fitted with exhaust gas cleaning systems.</p><p> </p><p>The sulphur content of a vessel’s fuel is within the scope of the Port State Control inspection regime and therefore vessels on the UK Ship Register are subject to inspection and fuel sampling at such inspections. Again, the MCA has not identified a need to generate statistical information on the merchant vessels which have been subject to these inspections.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani grouped question UIN 227083 question first answered 07/03/2019 12:59:41 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

1079398

registered interest
date	28/02/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Shipping: Exhaust Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an estimate of the number of internationally registered merchant vessels using sea routes from UK ports that use fuel that is compliant with the International Maritime Organisation’s 0.5 per cent cap on the sulphur content of shipping exhaust emissions to be introduced on 1 January 2020.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
tabling member printed	Karl Turner
uin	227088
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2019 answer text <p>As the IMO 2020 requirements are not yet in force ships are not currently required to make use of compliant fuel and information on the use of 0.5% fuel is not being recorded. We would expect operators to begin moving into compliance in late 2019.</p><p> </p><p>All ships which operate in ECA designated waters have been using 0.1 per cent sulphur fuel since 2015 or an equivalent means of compliance. Whilst in these waters, these ships would be meeting the requirements of the 0.5 per cent global cap.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani grouped question UIN 227086 227090 227091 question first answered 05/03/2019 16:18:31 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner