Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he has taken to (a) prepare a scoping exercise and (b) enhance the effectiveness of provisions on fatigue and seafarers' hours of work and rest in line with the approval of outputs at the 105th Session of the Maritime Safety Committee of the International Maritime Organisation.

The United Kingdom co-sponsored a paper presented at the Maritime Safety Committee in April 2022 which proposed initiating a scoping exercise and enhancement of the effectiveness of provisions on seafarers’ hours of work and rest hours and fatigue. The UK has since met with the World Maritime University to discuss its contents with a view to supporting progress on these work items for consideration at the International Maritime Organization’s eighth session of the Human element, Training and Watchkeeping Sub-Committee.