Shipping: Training

(asked on 9th February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will estimate the number of UK Ratings who were trained on tonnage tax qualifying vessels in (a) 2019-20, (b) 2020-21 and (c) 2021-22.


Answered by
Robert Courts Portrait
Robert Courts
Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
This question was answered on 21st February 2022

The Department does not record this data as it is the total number of training months a company completes that determines whether it has met its minimum training obligation (MTO) under the tonnage tax regime. As the MTO can be satisfied by the training of both UK and EEA seafarers, no distinction based on nationality is required in the information supplied by the companies/groups within the current UK Tonnage Tax scheme.

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