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Shipping: Training

Question for Department for Transport

UIN 121721, tabled on 9 February 2022

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will estimate the number of UK Ratings who were trained on tonnage tax qualifying vessels in (a) 2019-20, (b) 2020-21 and (c) 2021-22.

Answered on

21 February 2022

The Department does not record this data as it is the total number of training months a company completes that determines whether it has met its minimum training obligation (MTO) under the tonnage tax regime. As the MTO can be satisfied by the training of both UK and EEA seafarers, no distinction based on nationality is required in the information supplied by the companies/groups within the current UK Tonnage Tax scheme.

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