Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 31817
Shipping: Conditions of Employment
Tabled: 21 February 2025
Answered: 3 March 2025
Question
Grahame Morris
Labour — Easington
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment she has made of the contribution of the Maritime Labour Convention to (a) pay, (b) welfare standards and (c) safety within the UK shipping industry in the last ten years.
Answer
Mike KaneThe UK takes seafarer safety and welfare seriously having implemented the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC), 2006, in the UK since 2014. The UK takes an active role in the international Committee which keeps the MLC under review. The UK also undertakes and...
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