§ Mr. ProsserTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions how many new vessels were delivered to UK private-sector shipowners in each of the last five years; and what were their total cost and total tonnage. [118356]
§ Mr. HillDetailed information for the last nine available years is presented in Table 7.8 of Maritime Statistics 1998, a copy of which is available in the Library of the House. This shows the number and value of expenditure of new ships delivered to UK private sector ship owners.
The information is summarised in the table.
Deliveries of new ships to UK private sector ship owners Number Value of Expenditure (£ million) 1994 16 283 1995 13 472 1996 14 78 1997 25 298 1998 16 261 No information is readily available on the tonnage of these ships.
§ Mr. ProsserTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions how many foreign ships have been inspected under port state control176W arrangements in UK ports in each of the last five years; of those how many and what proportion had to be detained; and what percentage of inspected ships were found to have deficiencies. [118353]
§ Mr. HillThe figures for foreign-flagged ships inspected by the UK under Port State Control are as follows:
Year Number PSC Inspections Number detained Percentage detained Percentage with deficiencies 1995–96 2,098 206 9.8 70.5 1996–97 1,880 157 8.4 71.3 1997–98 1,890 179 9.5 73.0 1998–99 1,980 155 7.8 74.8 1999–20001 1,800 107 5.9 72.2 1 Provisional figures