Diamond Princess: Coronavirus

(asked on 4th March 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what support has been provided by UK Ship Register officials to (a) crew and (b) passengers on the cruise liner Diamond Princess after the outbreak of covid-19 on that ship.


Answered by
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Kelly Tolhurst
This question was answered on 12th March 2020

The Diamond Princess is registered with the United Kingdom. As Flag State, our obligations under the international Maritime Labour Convention include safeguarding the welfare and well-being of all the crew, not just those who were UK nationals, and that they could all access, amongst other things, medical support, as and when they needed it.

During the quarantine period of the Diamond Princess the UK government acted on behalf of the safety and well-being of a) the crew and b) the passengers. UK officials in my Department and at the Maritime & Coastguard Agency, as well as valuable consular support from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in Tokyo, worked closely with the ship-owner, Carnival Cruises, the Japanese Government and their health authorities in Yokohama to ensure the well-being and safety of all persons on board and limit the risk of contagion spreading.

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