Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will estimate the number of UK Ratings who were trained on tonnage tax qualifying vessels in (a) 2019-20, (b) 2020-21 and (c) 2021-22.
The Department does not record this data as it is the total number of training months a company completes that determines whether it has met its minimum training obligation (MTO) under the tonnage tax regime. As the MTO can be satisfied by the training of both UK and EEA seafarers, no distinction based on nationality is required in the information supplied by the companies/groups within the current UK Tonnage Tax scheme.