Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 25 May 2022 to Question 6742 on P&O Ferries: Crew, what progress his Department has made on the investigation into reports that some people formerly employed by P&O Ferries have not been able to retrieve their personal belongings from the premises of their former employer.

The Maritime & Coastguard Agency is monitoring the return of belongings to dismissed P&O Ferries crew members –. P&O Ferries states that as of 26 May over 600 crew had received their belongings, and 90 had faced issues with their return. The company has advised that its team is now concluding the process of returning belongings. The MCA is in regular contact with P&O Ferries about this matter and I have also written to P&O personally to raise this as an issue of importance. The MCA encourages any affected seafarers who are yet to have items returned to contact it at exams@mcga.gov.uk with a list of the belongings that are outstanding so it can seek to facilitate the swift resolution of these cases.