Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 20 February 2023 to Question 141634 on Wind Power: Seas and Oceans, if his Department will make an estimate of the (a) number of non-UK Flagged vessels operating in the offshore wind sector and (b) percentage of the total number of vessels operating in the offshore wind sector that are UK Flagged.

As per previous answer to Question 141634, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) does not hold registration data for non-UK Flagged vessels specifically operating in the offshore wind sector.

Therefore, the second part of the question cannot be answered. In order to calculate the percentage of UK Flagged vessels it would require a volume of the whole sector and the MCA does not have this information.