Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many UK-resident seafarer (a) Ratings and (b) Officers are employed on tonnage tax qualifying vessels registered on (i) the UK flag, (ii) other Red Ensign Group flags and (iii) non-UK flags.

The statistics that we hold do not differentiate Red Ensign Group registries and only consider UK registered vessels and non UK registered vessels.

As of 30 November 2018;

There are 1,304 UK resident seafarer ratings employed on TT qualifying vessels registered on UK flag and 1,478 on TT qualifying vessels not registered on the UK flag.

There are 1,305 UK resident officers employed on TT qualifying vessels registered on UK flags and 2,066 UK resident officers employed on TT qualifying vessels not registered on UK flags.