Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 18348

Maritime and Coastguard Agency: Pay

Tabled: 13 July 2026
Answered: 4 August 2026
Named Day

Question

Michael Wheeler

LabourWorsley and Eccles

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reason the Maritime and Coastguard Agency changed the operating model of the Coastguard Rescue Service to an unpaid model rather making changes necessary to reflect the Court of Appeal judgment in Mari

Answer

Keir Mather
Plans to move the Coastguard Rescue Service to an expenses-only volunteer model in September will not go ahead, and current arrangements will remain in place. We will now take time to gather the robust information required to understand the full operation...

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