Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 18 June 2018 to Question 152138, on shipping: pay, whether his Department monitors the effect of agreements reached in that sub-committee on (a) seafarers and (b) shipowners in the UK.

The Government does not set a sectoral minimum wage for the Maritime Sector and does not monitor the effect of the agreements set by the bipartite International Labour Organization (ILO) Joint Maritime Commission's Subcommittee on Wages of Seafarers. Information relating to the subcommittee is in the public domain and can be found on the ILO website.