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

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effect of lower sulphur dioxide emission limits for merchant vessels in force from 1 January 2015 on (a) seafarer employment and (b) passenger and freight services (i) from Hull and (ii) in the North Sea.

Asked by:
Karl Turner (Independent)

The fall in oil prices means that the cost to the industry of complying with the 0.1 per cent sulphur limit is much lower than predicted. For the time being, these environmental rules do not appear to pose any significant obstacle to growth and employment to ships operating in the North Sea.

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