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Shipping: Inspections

Asked by Grahame MorrisLabourDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 4 November 2025UIN 85133

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many flag state inspections of commercial workboats for compliance with the Maritime Labour Convention have been carried out by organisations certified by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency in each year sin

Answered by Keir Mather

These inspections are delegated to the Certifying Authorities, and as such the Maritime and Coastguard Agency do not hold that data directly.

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