§ Ms WalleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list those ferries currently operating to and from United Kingdom ports which(a) meet and (b) do not meet the requirements of the proposed regional agreement relating to car deck bulkheads, indicating in each case in (b) when he expects the standards to be reached. [19871]
§ Mr. NorrisThe Government, in their response to the Transport Committee's report on cross-channel safety, had already undertaken to publish such a list, and subsequent updated lists, once agreement was reached on the implementation of a higher ferry survivability standard. Such an agreement has now been reached and a list indicating in each case when we expect the standard to be reached will be published after detailed calculations have been completed.