Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reason forecasts of future numbers of (a) UK certificated officers, (b) non-UK certificated officers, (c) cadets and (d) ratings do not feature in his Department's annual UK Seafarer Statistic series; and if he will make it his policy to include such forecasts in future editions of that publication.

Forecasts of future number of sea farers for 2011-2031 were published in the Seafarers Statistics 2011. This followed the publication of An independent review of the economic requirement for trained seafarers in the UK for the Department for Transport which estimated the future supply of and demand for officers, ratings and ex-seafarers for 2016 and 2021.