Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of employment conditions for seafarers working on the Cypriot registered Seaways Strashnov transporting steel monopile (a) foundations and (b) transition pieces for installation at the site of the Triton Knoll Offshore Wind Farm on the UK Continental Shelf.

The vessel in question is registered in Cyprus and is currently operating out of the Netherlands. Cyprus has ratified the Maritime Labour Convention and the employment conditions on board must be in compliance with the Convention.

If there is reason to believe that the vessel is not in compliance, it should be brought either to the attention of the Dutch maritime authorities, as the port state for the vessel, or the Cypriot maritime authorities as the flag state.