Shipping and Wind Power: Carbon Emissions

(asked on 8th December 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions his officials have had with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy regarding seafarer employment standards in the maritime supply chain of the offshore wind industry.


Answered by
Robert Courts Portrait
Robert Courts
Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
This question was answered on 13th December 2021

Officials continuously work closely with officials in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to ensure consistency of application of employment rights to seafarers and to ensure international obligations are correctly transposed.

Where UK has sovereignty to apply domestic employment rights under international law these discussions will include the application to seafarers working in the UK offshore sector wind sector.

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