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date	05/06/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	P&O Ferries: Irish Sea
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 assessment of the effect on British seafarers’ jobs in the Irish sea of P&O Ferries’ sale of the roll-on roll-off passenger ferry M/V European Endeavour.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	260662
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2019 answer text <p>The MV European Endeavour has been sold to Eckero Line and will operate on the Helsinki/Tallinn route. P&amp;O have confirmed that another vessel, the Mistral, that operated the Liverpool-Dublin route while the MV European Endeavour was undergoing a refit will continue to operate the route after the sale of the MV European Endeavor.</p><p> </p><p>P&amp;O have made a commercial decision to replace a passenger ro-ro ferry with a ro-ro cargo vessel to meet the changing demands of the freight market and particularly a rising demand for unaccompanied freight. Seafarers are required to meet the minimum standards of training as set out in the STCW Convention and no assessment is proposed to be made on the standards of seafarers operating in the Irish Sea.</p><p> </p><p>The choice of which crewing agency to employ seafarers from is a commercial decision and a matter of choice for any shipping company to make for itself. The Government does not hold data relating to which crewing agencies shipping companies use.</p><p> </p><p>There have been no recent meetings with P&amp;O where employment was discussed.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani grouped question UIN 260663 260664 260665 260666 260667 question first answered 13/06/2019 13:18:42 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

1130075

registered interest
date	05/06/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	P&O Ferries: Irish Sea
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 potential effect on seafarer employment standards in the Irish sea of P&O Ferries’ offer of voluntary redundancy to British seafarers employed on the M/V European Endeavour; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	260665
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2019 answer text <p>The MV European Endeavour has been sold to Eckero Line and will operate on the Helsinki/Tallinn route. P&amp;O have confirmed that another vessel, the Mistral, that operated the Liverpool-Dublin route while the MV European Endeavour was undergoing a refit will continue to operate the route after the sale of the MV European Endeavor.</p><p> </p><p>P&amp;O have made a commercial decision to replace a passenger ro-ro ferry with a ro-ro cargo vessel to meet the changing demands of the freight market and particularly a rising demand for unaccompanied freight. Seafarers are required to meet the minimum standards of training as set out in the STCW Convention and no assessment is proposed to be made on the standards of seafarers operating in the Irish Sea.</p><p> </p><p>The choice of which crewing agency to employ seafarers from is a commercial decision and a matter of choice for any shipping company to make for itself. The Government does not hold data relating to which crewing agencies shipping companies use.</p><p> </p><p>There have been no recent meetings with P&amp;O where employment was discussed.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani grouped question UIN 260662 260663 260664 260666 260667 question first answered 13/06/2019 13:18:42 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

1130073

registered interest
date	05/06/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	P&O Ferries: Crew
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when his Department last met with representatives of P&O Ferries to discuss seafarer employment.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	260664
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2019 answer text <p>The MV European Endeavour has been sold to Eckero Line and will operate on the Helsinki/Tallinn route. P&amp;O have confirmed that another vessel, the Mistral, that operated the Liverpool-Dublin route while the MV European Endeavour was undergoing a refit will continue to operate the route after the sale of the MV European Endeavor.</p><p> </p><p>P&amp;O have made a commercial decision to replace a passenger ro-ro ferry with a ro-ro cargo vessel to meet the changing demands of the freight market and particularly a rising demand for unaccompanied freight. Seafarers are required to meet the minimum standards of training as set out in the STCW Convention and no assessment is proposed to be made on the standards of seafarers operating in the Irish Sea.</p><p> </p><p>The choice of which crewing agency to employ seafarers from is a commercial decision and a matter of choice for any shipping company to make for itself. The Government does not hold data relating to which crewing agencies shipping companies use.</p><p> </p><p>There have been no recent meetings with P&amp;O where employment was discussed.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani grouped question UIN 260662 260663 260665 260666 260667 question first answered 13/06/2019 13:18:42 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

1130076

registered interest
date	05/06/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Ferries: Irish Sea
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which crewing agencies are contracted to provide seafarer ratings to ferry companies operating in the Irish Sea; and when those labour supply contracts were last inspected for compliance with Regulation (a) 1.4 and (b) 5.3 of the Maritime Labour Convention.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	260666
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2019 answer text <p>The MV European Endeavour has been sold to Eckero Line and will operate on the Helsinki/Tallinn route. P&amp;O have confirmed that another vessel, the Mistral, that operated the Liverpool-Dublin route while the MV European Endeavour was undergoing a refit will continue to operate the route after the sale of the MV European Endeavor.</p><p> </p><p>P&amp;O have made a commercial decision to replace a passenger ro-ro ferry with a ro-ro cargo vessel to meet the changing demands of the freight market and particularly a rising demand for unaccompanied freight. Seafarers are required to meet the minimum standards of training as set out in the STCW Convention and no assessment is proposed to be made on the standards of seafarers operating in the Irish Sea.</p><p> </p><p>The choice of which crewing agency to employ seafarers from is a commercial decision and a matter of choice for any shipping company to make for itself. The Government does not hold data relating to which crewing agencies shipping companies use.</p><p> </p><p>There have been no recent meetings with P&amp;O where employment was discussed.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani grouped question UIN 260662 260663 260664 260665 260667 question first answered 13/06/2019 13:18:42 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

1130077

registered interest
date	05/06/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Ferries: Irish Sea
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made a recent assessment of the effect of the low-cost crewing model on the number of British ratings directly employed on (a) passenger and (b) freight ferry services in the Irish sea.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	260667
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2019 answer text <p>The MV European Endeavour has been sold to Eckero Line and will operate on the Helsinki/Tallinn route. P&amp;O have confirmed that another vessel, the Mistral, that operated the Liverpool-Dublin route while the MV European Endeavour was undergoing a refit will continue to operate the route after the sale of the MV European Endeavor.</p><p> </p><p>P&amp;O have made a commercial decision to replace a passenger ro-ro ferry with a ro-ro cargo vessel to meet the changing demands of the freight market and particularly a rising demand for unaccompanied freight. Seafarers are required to meet the minimum standards of training as set out in the STCW Convention and no assessment is proposed to be made on the standards of seafarers operating in the Irish Sea.</p><p> </p><p>The choice of which crewing agency to employ seafarers from is a commercial decision and a matter of choice for any shipping company to make for itself. The Government does not hold data relating to which crewing agencies shipping companies use.</p><p> </p><p>There have been no recent meetings with P&amp;O where employment was discussed.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani grouped question UIN 260662 260663 260664 260665 260666 question first answered 13/06/2019 13:18:42 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd