Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when she last discussed application of the ILO Merchant Shipping (Minimum Standards) Convention 147 in the merchant shipping industry with the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.

Officials in the Department for Transport (DfT) meet regularly with their counterparts in the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) to discuss the implementation of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC), which supersedes the ILO Merchant Shipping (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 147). DfT also participate in the UK’s MLC Tripartite Working Group, which convenes every six months to review the effectiveness of the Convention’s implementation in UK legislation and to consider any updates required to supporting guidance for industry.