HC Deb 20 April 1990 vol 170 c1036W
Mr. Gareth Wardell

To 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. McLoughlin

The 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