Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many seafarer (a) Ratings and (b) Officers obtained Standards in Training, Certification and Watchkeeping qualifications from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency in each year between 2009-10 and 2017-18.
From April 2009 to March 2016 a total of 27,104 UK Certificates of Competency (CoC) were issued by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA).
Please note that figures from 2016/17 and 2017/18 are not yet available.
Year (April – March) | No. Of UK STCW Certificate of Competencies Issued |
2009/10 | 3193 |
2010/11 | 3538 |
2011/12 | 3593 |
2012/13 | 3683 |
2013/14 | 3932 |
2014/15 | 4125 |
2015/16 | 5040 |
Total: | 27,104 |
The MCA has only recorded statistical information pertaining to the number of rating certificates issued since 2015/16.
Year (April – March) | No. UK Rating Certificates Issued |
2015/16 | 297 |
Figures from 2016/17 and 2017/18 are not yet available.