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1461874

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date	11/05/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Aviation and Shipping: Russia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to identify Russian-owned aircraft and ships located in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	713
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2022 answer text <p>We are actively working with departments and agencies across government, with industry, and Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories, to enforce sanctions against Russia – including the identification of Russian-owned aircraft and ships.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts question first answered 17/05/2022 09:21:00 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1461879

registered interest
date	11/05/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Aviation and Shipping: Russia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many Russian-owned vessels have been seized at ports and airfields since sanctions have been introduced in response to the invasion of Ukraine.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	714
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2022 answer text <p>We are actively working with departments and agencies across Government to identify all aircraft and vessels, including leisure craft, that fall within the scope of the sanctions Regulations. To date, three aircraft have been detained, and two remain under a restriction of flying order pending investigation. At least 28 ships have been frustrated by the maritime sanctions, and one superyacht has been detained.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts question first answered 17/05/2022 09:17:57 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1461884

registered interest
date	11/05/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Shipping: Conditions of Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy to ensure the Maritime Labour Convention applies to all vessels operating in UK territorial waters.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	715
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2022 answer text <p>It is both the Department’s policy, and the United Kingdom’s legal obligation, as a country which has ratified the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC), to apply the standards of the MLC to UK flagged ships anywhere in the world and to foreign flagged ships calling at UK ports.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts question first answered 17/05/2022 10:03:42 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1453542

registered interest
date	23/03/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Shipping: Overseas Trade
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the amount of overseas trade that will be delivered to the UK through the maritime industry in the next 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	145845
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2022 answer text <p>The Department for Transport monitors and publishes port freight statistics on a quarterly and annual basis. The department’s published port freight statistics for the last quarter of 2021<sup>1</sup> and for both 2020<sup>2</sup> and 2019<sup>3</sup> are provided below. The Covid-19 pandemic has caused worldwide disruption to trade, and its impacts on the maritime sector are evidenced in these statistics.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] Port freight statistics October 2021 – December 2021: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/port-freight-quarterly-statistics-october-to-december-2021/port-freight-quarterly-statistics-october-to-december-2021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/port-freight-quarterly-statistics-october-to-december-2021/port-freight-quarterly-statistics-october-to-december-2021</a></p><p> </p><p>[2] Port freight annual statistics 2020 report: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/port-freight-annual-statistics-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/port-freight-annual-statistics-2020</a></p><p> </p><p>[3] Port freight annual statistics: 2019 report: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/port-freight-annual-statistics-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/port-freight-annual-statistics-2019</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts question first answered 29/03/2022 15:03:00 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord