Member

I ask my noble friend two things on my amendments in this group. First, did the previous Government reach the figure of 120 calls per year as a settlement with international ship owners, as suggested by the Minister’s comments following the P&O Ferries scandal? Secondly, will the Government agree to monitor and record over an annual period the number and name of merchant ships that call fewer than 120 times? I suggest that the Government should work jointly on this monitoring with the industry, unions and other stake- holders and agree to publish annual reports, or something similar, so that we can have full transparency as to the suitability of the threshold and whether it needs to be strengthened.