Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many seafarer (a) Ratings and (b) Officers have renewed their Standards in Training, Certification and Watchkeeping (STCW) qualifications since 1 January 2017; and what estimate his Department has made of the number of seafarers who will need to renew their STCW qualifications in each year to 2023.

Figures from 2016/17 and 2017/18 are not yet available. As a result, it is not possible to be provide statistics as to the number of Standards in Training, Certification and Watchkeeping (STCW) certificates renewed since January 2017.

A Certificate of Competency (CoC) holds a maximum validity of five years from the date of issue. Whilst we can provide figures on certificates due to expire in each year up until 2020/21, we cannot ascertain how many of the licence holders will apply to renew their licences.

The table below shows the number of certificates in each year that will require revalidation based on their date of issue five years prior.

Rating certificates do not expire and thus do not require revalidation.