Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish the (a) annual data sets and (b) other statistics held by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency on seafarer Ratings employed in the UK shipping industry.

The Department for Transport published (a) annual data sets and (b) other statistics on seafarer Ratings as part of the Seafarers in the UK Shipping Industry: 2017 statistical release on 30 May 2018. The Department is unable to publish annual underlying data sets that go beyond this as these data relate to individual employees of the Shipping Industry. The publication of such data would infringe on the data protection obligations of the Department.

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency is unable to provide the requested information as it does not collate the number of seafarer ratings employed in the UK shipping industry.