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date	21/07/2021
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	MV Empire Windrush: War Graves
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether HMT Empire Windrush has been designated as a war grave.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	37439
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>While the term ‘war grave’ is used in common parlance, there is no legal definition that applies at sea (or on land). Therefore, the wreck of the HMT Empire Windrush cannot be designated in this manner.</p><p>The wreck is not designated under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986, the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973, nor the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979.</p><p>This does not detract from the ship continuing to act as an extraordinary and enduring symbol of the contribution of the Windrush generation to the United Kingdom.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts question first answered 06/09/2021 15:58:29 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

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date	22/09/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Shipping: Identification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has in place to stop skippers turning off their automatic identification system to prevent location identification.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	93580
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/09/2020 answer text <p>The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) already has measures in place to ensure that shipmasters, skippers and navigational watchkeepers of fishing vessels and commercial vessels mandated to carry automatic identification system (AIS) keep their systems operational and in proper use at all times.</p><p> </p><p>These measures include the use of fixed wing surveillance aircraft and fixed radar installations at certain locations along the coast.</p><p> </p><p>The MCA recently updated gov.uk weblinks to remind skippers of relevant fishing vessels that they must fit AIS which meet the international performance standards and that it is an offence to switch off AIS unless there are compelling grounds to justify that safety and security of the vessel would be affected.</p><p> </p><p>The MCA will either warn or prosecute and fine those who they discover are failing to properly use the AIS at sea.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts question first answered 29/09/2020 09:11:15 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord