Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department, including Border Force, has any agreement or operational arrangement with the RNLI on the use of Automatic Identification System equipment during search and rescue operations.

None of the Home Secretary’s departments have any agreement or operational arrangement with the RNLI on the use of Automatic Identification System equipment during search and rescue operations. Responsibility for directing and coordinating search and rescue operations at sea sits with the Maritime and Coastguard Agency under Department for Transport.