Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many ferry movements there have been between Welsh ports and the Republic of Ireland in each month of the last three year.

The Department for Transport does not collect statistics for vessel movements on a monthly basis but publishes annual figures. In addition, these statistics only show overall roll-on, roll-off ferry arrivals at the port, not the specific port of origin.

Figures for total vessel arrivals at Welsh ports with a ferry service to the Republic of Ireland in the last three years are available in the table below derived from Maritime Statistics (PORT0602) https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/port-and-domestic-waterborne-freight-statistics-port.

Figures for 2021 are not yet available and will be published in Summer 2022.