Unseaworthy Vessels

HC Deb 16 March 2000 vol 346 cc327-8W

Mrs. Dunwoody

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions how many prosecutions of companies owning unseaworthy vessels took place in(a) 1997–98, (b) 1998–99 and (c) 1999–2000. [114523]

Mr. Hill

There have been no prosecutions of companies owning unseaworthy vessel in(a) 1997–98, (b) 1998–99 and (c) 1999–2000

However the owner and operator, as individuals, were convicted in 1999 of unsafe operation of a ship of the Belize registered ROYAL 1.