Written questions

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...