Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether those maritime rescue co-ordination centres that are scheduled to close will remain fully operational until their closure.

Maritime Rescue Coordination Centres (MRCC) that are scheduled to close will remain fully operational until their closure. There are currently no plans to change this.

Where the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) is undertaking the decommissioning of equipment at MRCCs it is carried out in accordance with its legal and contractual obligations as well as appropriate accounting and health and safety standards. Where appropriate we will re-utilise equipment at other MCA sites.