Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 113451

Shipping: Conditions of Employment

Tabled: 20 February 2026

Answered: 2 March 2026

Question

John McDonnell

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when she last discussed application of the ILO Merchant Shipping (Minimum Standards) Convention 147 in the merchant shipping industry with the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.

Answer

Keir Mather

Officials in the Department for Transport (DfT) meet regularly with their counterparts in the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) to discuss the implementation of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC), which supersedes the ILO Merchant Shipping (Min...

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