Shipping: Conditions of Employment
Commons · Question 31817 · Tabled 21 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport · Official record
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Grahame Morris
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment she has made of the contribution of the Maritime Labour Convention to (a) pay, (b) welfare standards and (c) safety within the UK shipping industry in the last ten years.
Answer
Answered by Mike Kane, 3 Mar 2025
The UK takes seafarer safety and welfare seriously having implemented the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC), 2006, in the UK since 2014. The UK takes an active role in the international Committee which keeps the MLC under review. The UK also undertakes and...