Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 16 May 2022 to Question 697 on P&O Ferries: Inspections, how many visits Maritime and Coastguard Agency inspectors carried out; and on what dates those visits took place as part of each Port State Control inspection of each vessel.
The table below shows the dates the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) conducted inspections of the vessels and the number of days each inspection took. Where a vessel has been detained and subsequently released the number of visits from the initial to the final are recorded as one inspection.
Vessel | Date of Initial Inspection | Length of Inspection in Days | Remarks |
Pride of Canterbury | 3 December 2019 | 1 |
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Pride of Kent | 4 February 2020 | 1 |
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28 March 2022 | 2 | Detention | |
13 April 2022 | 1 | ||
9 May 2022 | 1 | ||
Pride of Hull | 25 November 2021 | 1 |
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23 March 2022 | 1 |
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Spirit of Britain | 22 January 2020 | 1 |
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11 April 2022 | 2 | Detention | |
22 April 2022 | 1 | ||
Spirit of France | 5 February 2020 | 1 |
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European Causeway | 30 May 2019 | 1 |
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25 August 2019 | 1 |
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19 December 2019 | 1 |
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27 February 2020 | 1 |
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11 October 2020 | 1 |
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7 September 2021 | 1 |
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25 March 2022 | 1 | Detention | |
7 April 2022 | 2 | ||
27 April 2022 | 1 |
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European Highlander | 27 June 2019 | 1 |
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9 January 2020 | 1 |
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5 September 2020 | 1 |
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1 July 2021 | 1 |
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21 April 2022 | 2 |
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