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1130076

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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	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

926666

registered interest
date	18/06/2018
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, how many UK (a) passengers and (b) businesses have been affected by the delay in the arrival of the Irish Ferries vessel WB Yeats on commercial routes in the Irish Sea.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
tabling member printed	Karl Turner
uin	154685
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2018 answer text <p>Data on the number and the nationality of passengers affected will be held by the relevant ferry operator. In this instance, Irish Ferries has stated that 5,746 customers are affected in total, but a breakdown by nationality is not provided.</p><p> </p><p>However, given that the disrupted route is Dublin to Cherbourg the number of UK customers impacted is likely to be minimal. If UK passengers are affected then Irish Ferries are offering alternative travel arrangements, reimbursements and refunds, and the EU Regulation on maritime passenger rights also applies in these circumstances.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 22/06/2018 12:28:45 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

926667

registered interest
date	18/06/2018
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, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on maritime employment in (a) North Wales and (b) the UK of Irish Ferries’ deployment of a new vessel on the Holyhead-Dublin route from September 2018.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
tabling member printed	Karl Turner
uin	154686
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2018 answer text <p>This is a commercial decision and therefore no assessment has been made by Government. However, we are pleased to see the commitment from Irish Ferries to operate on this route.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 22/06/2018 12:34:26 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

797291

registered interest
date	29/11/2017
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of Brexit on ferry services in the Irish Sea.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL3723
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government's aim is that maritime trade with the EU, including Ireland, should continue to be as frictionless as possible. With that aim in mind, we are looking at the impact of exit on ferry services throughout the United Kingdom.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 06/12/2017 12:48:45 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

540099

registered interest
date	19/07/2016
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, if he will assess the level of charges by ferry companies to cross the Irish Sea.
tabling member constituency	South Antrim
tabling member printed	Danny Kinahan
uin	43343
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2016 answer text <p>I have held no such recent discussions. The level of charges on ferries across the Irish Sea is a commercial matter for the companies concerned, subject to normal competition law.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes grouped question UIN 43341 43342 question first answered 22/07/2016 07:28:41 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	4381 label Biography information for Danny Kinahan