PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Merchant Shipping: Exhaust Emissions (26 January 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the rate of compliance on routes from (a) Hull and (b) in the North Sea with lower sulphur dioxide emission limit for merchant vessels which came into force on 1 January 2015.

Asked by:
Karl Turner (Independent)

There are no figures for 2015.

However, since 1 January 2016 the Maritime and Coastguard Agency has inspected 34 ships within the North Sea Sulphur Emission Control for compliance with the lower 0.1 per cent sulphur limit. Eleven of these ships had fuel samples taken and analysed, and one ship was found to be marginally non-compliant.

The one ship that was inspected and had its fuel sampled at the port of Hull was found to be within the limit.

Answered by:
Sir Robert Goodwill (Conservative)
29 January 2016