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(asked on 24th April 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many seafarer (a) Ratings and (b) Officers obtained Standards in Training, Certification and Watchkeeping qualifications from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency in each year between 2009-10 and 2017-18.


Answered by
Nusrat Ghani Portrait
Nusrat Ghani
Minister of State (Minister for Europe)
This question was answered on 30th April 2018

From April 2009 to March 2016 a total of 27,104 UK Certificates of Competency (CoC) were issued by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA).

Please note that figures from 2016/17 and 2017/18 are not yet available.

Year (April – March)

No. Of UK STCW Certificate of Competencies Issued

2009/10

3193

2010/11

3538

2011/12

3593

2012/13

3683

2013/14

3932

2014/15

4125

2015/16

5040

Total:

27,104

The MCA has only recorded statistical information pertaining to the number of rating certificates issued since 2015/16.

Year (April – March)

No. UK Rating Certificates Issued

2015/16

297

Figures from 2016/17 and 2017/18 are not yet available.

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