---

Offshore Suppliers: Inspections

Answer

Non-UK vessels are inspected under the Paris Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) Port State Control Inspection regime. The database of inspections uses categories of vessel rather than the industry the vessels serve. In this instance, oil and gas support vessels are in the category of “Offshore Supply” which may also include vessels, such as wind farm vessels. Therefore, the number of inspected non-UK registered oil and gas support vessels cannot be accurately provided.

However, from 2014 to 2019 the Maritime and Coastguard Agency inspected on average 144 foreign flagged Offshore Supply vessels under the Port State Control Regime each calendar year. The Covid-19 pandemic reduced this to 88 inspections in 2020 and 119 in 2021. The number of foreign flagged Offshore Supply Vessels inspected under the Port State Control regime is now back to pre-pandemic levels with 144 inspected in 2022.

The table below shows the number of UK Offshore Supply inspections carried out in each year from 2014-2022.

UK Offshore Supply Inspections
Year	Inspections by MCA
2014	154
2015	139
2017	143
2018	140
2019	151
2020	88
2021	119
2022	144

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

151424

Session

2022-23

Subjects

Inspections Offshore suppliers Maritime and Coastguard Agency

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

View this Written question on www.parliament.uk