Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many transit visas have been issued by UK Visas and Immigration to non-UK resident seafarers employed by (a) Clyde Marine Recruitment and (b) International Fleet Management to work on P&O Ferries vessels on regularly scheduled services from UK ports between 1 February and 16 May 2022.

Home Office Migration Statistics do not publish the number of seafarers who have been granted visas to enter the UK to join Clyde Marine Recruitment and International Fleet Management to work on P&O Ferries vessels. To capture numbers would require a manual trawl of data and to do so would incur disproportionate cost.