Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions officials in his Department have had with representatives of the International Marine Contractors Association on the (a) operation and (b) effect of the Government’s immigration policies on the recruitment of non-EEA seafarers to work in the offshore (i) wind and (ii) decommissioning industries since January 2015.
Officials have met a range of stakeholders including representatives of the International Marine Contractors Association, in September 2017, to discuss the labour requirements of contractors operating in the offshore energy sector.