Written question asked by Adrian Sanders (Liberal Democrat) on Thursday, 10 June 2004, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 17 June 2004. It was answered by David Jamieson (Labour) on Thursday, 17 June 2004 on behalf of the Department for Transport.

Dept for Transport

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many recommendations from the May 1994 Donaldson Inquiry have been implemented; and which recommendations have yet to be implemented.

Answer: Mr. Sanders: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many recommendations from the May 1994 Donaldson Inquiry have been implemented; and which recommendations have yet to be implemented. [178922] Mr. Jamieson: Lord Donaldson made 103 recommendations (some of which are subdivided still further), and the vast majority have been implemented. Additionally, there are a small number of instances where legislative developments in the International Maritime Organization or the European Community have made the recommendation redundant. The following recommendations remain outstanding: recommendations 59 (Marine Environmental High Risk Areas) and 64 (ship-to-ship transfer in Lyme Bay), on which a substantial amount of work has been done, but which have not yet been fully implemented; recommendations 58 and 60, which are consequential to recommendation 59; and recommendation 67d, awaiting the development of experience of transponders on merchant ships.

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