Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when his Department last met National Historic Ships UK to discuss the potential effect on older UK passenger boats of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency’s proposals for those vessels.

The Department held a dedicated meeting with representatives of National Historic Ships UK on 14 February 2019 to discuss proposals resulting from the review into standards for older UK passenger ships and in particular how these may affect those commercial passenger vessels on the National Historic Ships Register and the National Historic fleet.

National Historic Ships UK were also present at the stakeholder workshop on 26th March 2019 to discuss the review.