Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 85132
Shipping: Working Hours
Tabled: 27 October 2025
Answered: 4 November 2025
Question
Grahame Morris
Labour — Easington
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will set out the statutory limits on seafarers’ hours of work and rest when employed on Workboats over 200 gross tonnage in UK territorial waters.
Answer
Keir MatherThe Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Hours of Work) Regulations 2018 apply to all sea-going commercially operated vessels, including workboats over 200 gross tonnage operating in UK territorial waters. These set the minimum hours of rest as...
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