§ Mr. Gareth WardellTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will publish the number of defective merchant vessels that have been detained at British ports for each of the last five years.
§ Mr. McLoughlinThe number of merchant ships which have been detained in United Kingdom ports as a result of defects indentified by Department of Transport marine surveyors in the course of general or port state control inspections in each of the last five years is as follows:
Number 1985 33 1986 33 1987 26 1988 48 1989 47 11990 23 1 January—March