Shipping: Employment
(asked on 28th October 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many UK domiciled (a) ratings and (b) officers were employed on tonnage tax qualifying vessels registered outside the Red Ensign Group in each year between 2001-02 and 2020-21.
The Department does not maintain records relating to UK domicile. Nor does it maintain specific flag state seafarer employment data other than distinguishing between those employed on UK Flagged ships and all others. The number of UK nationals employed on non-UK flagged vessels is however reported by companies within UK Tonnage Tax and the figures based on those reports are as follows:
Officers
Year |
|
British on non-UK flagged | |
2000/01*† | 911 |
2001/02*† | 3,215 |
2002/03*† | 2,946 |
2003/04* | 614 |
2004/05* | 576 |
2005/06 | 622 |
2006/07 | 744 |
2007/08 | 827 |
2008/09 | 976 |
2009/10 | 973 |
2010/11 | 759 |
2011/12 | 822 |
2012/13 | 914 |
2013/14 | 881 |
2014/15‡ | 859 |
2015/16 | 692 |
2016/17 | 674 |
2017/18 | 648 |
2018/19 | 761 |
2019/20 | 941 |
2020/21 | 801 |
Ratings
Year |
|
British on non-UK flagged | |
2000/01*† | 455 |
2001/02*† | 1,685 |
2002/03*† | 1,999 |
2003/04* | 188 |
2004/05* | 161 |
2005/06 | 165 |
2006/07 | 124 |
2007/08 | 172 |
2008/09 | 280 |
2009/10 | 326 |
2010/11 | 245 |
2011/12 | 251 |
2012/13 | 313 |
2013/14 | 335 |
2014/15‡ | 323 |
2015/16 | 215 |
2016/17 | 164 |
2017/18 | 141 |
2018/19 | 174 |
2019/20 | 379 |
2020/21 | 318 |
Information for UK Flag only is not available for the years 2000/01, 2001/02 and 2002/03 so those figures are included as part of the whole.