Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister of State for Transport of 17 November 2016, Official Report, column 376, if he will list the (a) Government departments, (b) maritime trade unions, (c) shipping companies and (d) other stakeholders who will participate in the review of the application of national minimum wage legislation to seafarers in UK waters; and when the first meeting of the legal review group is planned to take place.

It is expected that this will have a similar membership to the previous legal working group that looked at these issues in 2010. Therefore;

a) Department for Transport

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

b) Rail, Maritime and Transport Union

Nautilus International

c) UK Chamber of Shipping

These are the core members of the Group.

Officials are planning for the first meeting in January.