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1133628

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Shipping: Crew
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to Table SFR0101 in his Department's statistical series, Estimated UK Seafarers active at sea by type: 1997 to 2018, what estimate he has made of the number of UK (a) Ratings and (b) Officers employed by companies that are not members of the UK Chamber of Shipping.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
	tabling member printed	Karl Turner
	uin	267285
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2019 answer text <p>While an attempt was made to collect information from companies who are not members of the UK Chamber of Shipping, the response rate was not sufficient to allow a robust estimate of the number of ratings and officers employed by these companies to be produced.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 24/06/2019 14:45:46 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

1133629

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Shipping: Crew
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will request from the UK Chamber of Shipping data on the (a) age and (b) gender profile of the seafarer workforce featured in Data Table SFR0303 Seafarers active at sea by type and nationality group, UK Chamber of Shipping member companies: 2012 to 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
	tabling member printed	Karl Turner
	uin	267286
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2019 answer text <p>Data on the (a) age and (b) gender profile of UK seafarers active at sea employed by UK Chamber of Shipping member companies are published in Statistical Table SFR0302. Data for non-UK nationalities are not held at a sufficient enough quality to allow robust estimates to be made.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 24/06/2019 14:42:17 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

1122790

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Shipping: Crew
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to table SFR0302 of the UK Seafarer Statistics published on 12 December 2018, what discussions he has had with the Chamber of Shipping on the number of UK (a) Ratings and (b) Certificated Officers recorded as unknown age; and what steps he is taking to improve the quality of the seafarer workforce data provided to his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
	tabling member printed	Karl Turner
	uin	247011
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2019 answer text <p>The figures shown in table SFR0302 of the UK Seafarer Statistics are based on data collected via the annual Chamber of Shipping Manpower survey. During the data collection period, the Department’s statisticians liaise closely with the Chamber of Shipping to ensure the quality and completeness of the data is as high as possible, with a response rate of around 90% of eligible companies achieved in 2018.</p><p>Where seafarer age is not recorded, efforts are made to contact the companies to obtain these details. However, where companies are unable or unwilling to share this information with the Department, aggregate data will be accepted so that the total number of seafarers covered is as accurate as possible.</p><p>The Department’s statisticians will continue to work closely with the Chamber to seek opportunities to improve the quality of the data collected as part of the 2019 survey, including exploring whether robust estimates of missing data can be made.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 01/05/2019 15:02:04 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

1088443

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Shipping: Crew
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effect of employment practices of shipping companies contracted to work in the offshore wind sector on employment levels for UK-resident seafarer (a) Ratings and (b) Officers.
	tabling member constituency	Gateshead
	tabling member printed	Ian Mearns
	uin	231986
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>I refer the honourable gentleman to my previous answer 220193 in which I explained that it is not possible to provide an estimate of UK seafarers operating on vessels in the offshore oil and gas sector. It is also not possible to estimate the numbers working in the UK offshore wind sector.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 19/03/2019 15:28:37 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	4000 label Biography information for Ian Mearns

1016414

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2018
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Shipping: Crew
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many seafarer (a) Ratings and (b) Officers working in the UK shipping industry are employed by recruitment and placement agencies registered outside the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
	tabling member printed	Karl Turner
	uin	196853
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2018 answer text <p>We do not collect those statistics.</p><p> </p><p>The recruitment and placement of seafarers on UK registered vessels must comply with the requirements set down in the Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Minimum Requirements for Seafarers etc.) Regulations 2014 and this covers where the recruitment and placement may occur outside the UK.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 05/12/2018 15:24:35 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

1016416

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2018
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Shipping: Crew
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many UK-resident seafarer (a) Ratings and (b) Officers are employed on tonnage tax qualifying vessels registered on (i) the UK flag, (ii) other Red Ensign Group flags and (iii) non-UK flags.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
	tabling member printed	Karl Turner
	uin	196855
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2018 answer text <p>The statistics that we hold do not differentiate Red Ensign Group registries and only consider UK registered vessels and non UK registered vessels.</p><p> </p><p>As of 30 November 2018;</p><p>There are 1,304 UK resident seafarer ratings employed on TT qualifying vessels registered on UK flag and 1,478 on TT qualifying vessels not registered on the UK flag.</p><p> </p><p>There are 1,305 UK resident officers employed on TT qualifying vessels registered on UK flags and 2,066 UK resident officers employed on TT qualifying vessels not registered on UK flags.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 05/12/2018 13:40:57 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

847823

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2018
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Shipping: Crew
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many UK seafarer (a) Ratings and (b) Officers were employed on UK Ship Registered vessels in each year since 2000-01.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
	tabling member printed	Karl Turner
	uin	129499
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2018 answer text <p>The 2017 Seafarer Statistics are scheduled for publication in May 2018. This is to allow sufficient time following user engagement to review the existing set of statistics and consider ways in which they may be improved. A summary of user feedback received will be included alongside this release.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the review of the current statistics, the Department is currently assessing the quality of data collected on registration of vessel and seafarer nationality with a view to deriving new official statistics. Should the data be considered to be sufficiently robust, then the information requested will be included with the next publication.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani grouped question UIN 129496 129497 129500 129501 question first answered 05/03/2018 16:21:20 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

802172

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Shipping: Crew
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many UK seafarer (a) Ratings and (b) Officers held jobs on vessels which have joined the UK Ship Register since 1 January 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
	tabling member printed	Karl Turner
	uin	117859
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not held.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 12/12/2017 15:49:43 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
	tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

752773

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Shipping: Crew
	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 supply of UK (a) officers and (b) ratings will meet the increases in demand for seafarers in the UK shipping industry over the next decade, forecast in the UK Seafarer Projections report commissioned by his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
	tabling member printed	Karl Turner
	uin	5288
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>Having a skilled workforce is essential to the future of the UK's maritime sector and is an area I am personally committed to.</p><p> </p><p>Alongside the Seafarers Projections report, a review of the Support for Maritime Training (SMarT) scheme was also commissioned and the report published on 18<sup>th</sup> July. Both of these pieces of work will be used to inform future policy with the aim to increase the number of officers and ratings.</p><p> </p><p>The Department continues to support seafarer training through the £15m SMarT scheme. It has been working with industry and the unions on the development of the SMarT Plus proposal which aims to increase officer numbers to 1200. The latest version of the proposal was received in June and is currently under consideration.</p><p> </p><p>Work is underway in developing a range of rating apprenticeships which will deliver more routes into ratings training. The Deck Apprenticeship is now approved and the Engine Room and Catering rating apprenticeships are progressing well. These apprenticeships, along with the levy and the tonnage tax ratings option will help stimulate increased demand for ratings training. Coupled with this is the Ratings Taskforce of which the Department is an active member. At the recent Ratings Summit, which was attended by a number of officials, a range of actions were put forward by attendees and the Department looks forward to seeing the development of a Ratings Strategy by the Ratings Taskforce which will address some of these actions.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 20/07/2017 12:48:21 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
	tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

752774

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Shipping: Crew
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of the seafarer (a) officer and (b) rating jobs onboard tonnage tax qualifying vessels are held by UK-domiciled seafarers.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
	tabling member printed	Karl Turner
	uin	5289
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>The figures for 2016/2017 are</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="4"><p>UK Flag only</p></td><td colspan="4"><p>All Flags</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>British</p></td><td><p>EU/ EEA</p></td><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>% British</p></td><td><p>British</p></td><td><p>EU/ EEA</p></td><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>% British</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Ratings</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1,538</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>489</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1,325</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>46%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1,702</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1,208</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>7,531</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>16%</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Officers</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1,479</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>658</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>683</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>52%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2,153</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2,362</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>3,105</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>28%</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 20/07/2017 12:52:01 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
	tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner