Shipping: Minimum Wage

(asked on 17th November 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what representations he has received from (a) individual shipping companies, (b) the UK Chamber of Shipping, (c) maritime trades unions and (d) the TUC on National Minimum Wage enforcement for seafarers since July 2016.


Answered by
Margot James Portrait
Margot James
This question was answered on 22nd November 2016

Since July 2016, my Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has not received any representations from the organisations referenced above on the subject of minimum wage enforcement for seafarers.

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