Merchant Shipping: Crew

(asked on 23rd March 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of merchant seamen who are UK passport holders.


Answered by
Robert Courts Portrait
Robert Courts
Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
This question was answered on 29th March 2021

The UK does not record additional information, such as occupation, on its passports and it would not be possible to estimate how many seafarers hold a UK passport.

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