Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether agreements made at the International Labour Organisation’s Subcommittee on Wages of Seafarers will apply to crew on (a) UK and (b) internationally registered vessels that are employed by crewing agencies.

The UK does not set sectoral minimum wages. However, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) issued new guidance on the application of the UK national minimum wage to seafarers in January 2018.