Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of qualifying ships in the Tonnage Tax scheme are registered on the (a) Cypriot, (b) Bahamas, (c) Isle of Man, (d) Bermuda, (e) Maltese, (f) Liberian and (g) Marshall Islands shipping registers as on 28 June 2022.

The Department maintains a year on year record of qualifying vessels operated by the companies in Tonnage Tax. This is based on returns supplied by those companies at the beginning of each training year in October. The returns for the 2021/22 training year produce a total number of 690 vessels. The figures for the requested ship registers are as follows:

Cyprus: 11

Bahamas: 46

Isle of Man: 44

Bermuda: 8

Malta: 46

Liberia: 120

Marshall Islands: 53