Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many Ratings were trained on Tonnage Tax qualifying vessels in each year from 2018-19 to 2022-23.

To meet the Tonnage Tax training obligation, companies submit returns to the Department for Transport that specify the number of months that have been satisfied by the training of ratings. The following figures have been obtained from those returns.

2018/19 – 128 months equivalent to 11 ratings

2019/20 – 276 months equivalent to 23 ratings

2020/21 – 65 months equivalent to 5 ratings

2021/22 – 168 months equivalent to 14 ratings

2022/23 – 48 months so far representing 12 ratings currently part way through training as this year is still in progress.