Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what guidance his Department has issued to the shipping industry on (a) alternative fuels and (b) exhaust gas cleaning systems; and when that guidance was last updated.
The guidance on exhaust gas cleaning systems was issued by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) in a Marine Guidance Notice (MGN 510) in January 2015.
The MCA has not issued guidance to the shipping industry on alternative fuels.