Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to impose tighter restrictions and conditions on ships registering in the UK.

We have acted swiftly to hold Russia to account for its unprovoked invasion on Ukraine. The Secretary of State for Transport wrote to all UK ports on 28 February 2022 asking them not to provide access to any Russian flagged, registered, owned, controlled, chartered, or operated vessels.

Legislation has followed this and the the UK Government made regulations – THE RUSSIA (SANCTIONS) (EU EXIT) (AMENDMENT) (NO. 4) REGULATIONS 2022 – on 1 March which place into law restrictions on Russian vessels. These measures include a prohibition on the registration of ships on the UK Ship Register where they are owned, controlled, chartered or operated by a designated person or persons connected with Russia, or where they are a specified ship.