Written Question·Home Office·UIN 7744

Migrant Workers: Shipping

Tabled: 8 October 2024

Answered: 15 October 2024

Named Day

Question

Karl Turner

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Register of licensed sponsors: workers, published on 7 October 2024, how many seafarers were sponsored to work on ships (a) in UK waters, (b) on international routes from UK port

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle

All those who came to the UK under the concession were stamped at the Border rather than through visa routes and therefore no data was collected.