Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many seafarers have taken examinations at the Maritime and Coastguard Agency’s North East Exam Centre in South Tyneside College to date; and what the pass rate has been for (a) deck, (b) engine and (c) other oral exams taken at that centre.

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency opened the North East Exam Centre at South Tyneside College on the 7 March 2017.

From March 2017 to end of June 2018, the North East Exam Centre has undertaken:

(a) 761 Deck Oral examinations, with a success pass rate of 52%

(b) 834 Engineer Oral examinations, with a success pass rate of 77%

(c) 6 Other (i.e. Boatmasters’ Licence) Oral examinations with a success pass rate of 100%