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Merchant Shipping: Training

Answer

The number of new entrant cadets, the number of cadets in training and the number of trainee watch ratings who start training each year can be found in the tables below.

The figures in Table 1 show the number of cadets supported by the Support for Maritime Training (SMarT) scheme who started training in each year since 2000-01.

	2000/01	2001/02	2002/03	2003/04	2004/05	2005/06	2006/07	2007/08
Officer cadets currently in	1020	1010	1000	1030	1050	1110	1430	1700
training of which:
SMart1 new entrants	470	450	560	660	560	570	690	850

	2008/09	2009/10	2010/11	2011/12	2012/13	2013/14	2014/15	2015/16
Officer cadets currently in	1800	1830	1840	1900	1990	1940	1920	1860
training of which:
SMart1 new entrants	930	750	850	900	780	790	820	750

Table 1: UK officer cadets under SMarT1 scheme (1999-2016)

These figures are derived from SMarT returns for SMarT1 training and may include a small number of EU trainees resident in the UK. Numbers are rounded to nearest 10. Figures for 2016-17 are not yet available.

The figures in Table 2 below show the number of watch rating trainees who have been supported by SMarT each year since 2011-12. The data held by the MCA for ratings training prior to 2011-12 includes concessionaire training and does not provide an accurate reflection of watch rating training.

Year	Watch Rating Trainees
2011/12	32
2012/13	13
2013/14	12
2014/15	4
2015/16	7

Table 2: UK watch rating trainees under Smart scheme (2011 – 2016)

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

71563

Session

2016-17

Subjects

Crew Merchant shipping Training

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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