Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether it is his policy that the Maritime and Coastguard Agency will continue to submit the results of Port State Control inspections of foreign flagged vessels in UK ports to the European Maritime Safety Agency’s THETIS database after the UK has left the EU.

The UK is a member of the Paris Memorandum of Understanding (PMoU) on Port State Control (PSC).

There is an agreement in place for the European Maritime Safety Agency to host The Hybrid European Targeting and Information System (THETIS) on behalf of Paris MoU members, which includes Canada and the Russian Federation.

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency will continue to be a member of the PMoU after the UK has left the EU and will continue to submit the results of PSC inspections into the THETIS database.