Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions officials in his Department have had with officials in the Department for Transport on the availability of UK seafarers to work on (a) construction and (b) maintenance projects in the offshore wind industry.
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.