Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding was available to employers from the Support for Maritime Training (SMarT) budget for trainee seafarer ratings in each year since 2010-11; what proportion of that budget was spent in each such year; and what proportion of the total SMarT budget that represented in each such year.
Although SMarT has a fixed budget, funding is allocated on the basis of demand. The figures below therefore reflect the level of demand for ratings training – which has been met in full.
Ratings Training | ||
Year | Expenditure £ | % of SMarT Budget |
2010/11 | 116,357* | 0.76 |
2011/12 | 21,952 | 0.18 |
2012/13 | 7,991 | 0.06 |
2013/14 | 6,594 | 0.055 |
* For the year 2010/11, due to the limitations of the data collected a breakdown cannot be provided for expenditure solely for ratings training.
£100,000 was earmarked to train ratings and for rating to officer conversion training for each year between April 2011 and March 2014. Demand for this training has been very low and the allocation has not been used.