Shipping: Statistics

(asked on 23rd February 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the reasons are for the time taken to publish the most recent of the annual Seafarer Statistics series; and when he plans to publish the 2017 Seafarer Statistics.


Answered by
Nusrat Ghani Portrait
Nusrat Ghani
Minister of State (Minister for Europe)
This question was answered on 5th March 2018

The 2017 Seafarer Statistics are scheduled for publication in May 2018. This is to allow sufficient time following user engagement to review the existing set of statistics and consider ways in which they may be improved. A summary of user feedback received will be included alongside this release.

As part of the review of the current statistics, the Department is currently assessing the quality of data collected on registration of vessel and seafarer nationality with a view to deriving new official statistics. Should the data be considered to be sufficiently robust, then the information requested will be included with the next publication.

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