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(asked on 7th February 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding was made available to employers from the Support for Maritime Training budget for rating to officer conversion training in (a) 2015-16 and (b) 2016-17; and what the take up was of that funding stream in each year.


Answered by
Nusrat Ghani Portrait
Nusrat Ghani
Minister of State (Minister for Europe)
This question was answered on 21st February 2018

Although Support for Maritime Training (SMarT) has a fixed budget, funding continues to be allocated on the basis of demand. The figures in the tables below therefore reflect the level of demand, through SMarT 3 and SMarT 5, for ratings training and rating to officer conversion training, all has been met in full.

Ratings Training SM3

Year

Expenditure (£)

2015/16

1540

2016/17

486

Ratings Training SM5

Year

Expenditure (£)

2015/16

2838

2016/17

0

Rating to Officer Conversion Training

Year

Expenditure (£)

2015/16

25033

2016/17

7063

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