Shipping: Training

(asked on 10th February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many Officer Cadets entered training on Tonnage Tax qualifying ships in each year from 2000-01 to 2021-22.


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

The following table gives the number of officer cadets recorded as having commenced training in the end of period returns that companies in the UK Tonnage Tax scheme are required to submit.

New Starters

2003/04

621

2004/05

571

2005/06

562

2006/07

658

2007/08

854

2008/09

925

2009/10

702

2010/11

850

2011/12

903

2012/13

776

2013/14

790

2014/15

819

2015/16

752

2016/17

737

2017/18

684

2018/19

605

2019/20

621

2020/21

460

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