Question follow-through · 35599

DFDS: Roll-on Roll-off Ships

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has had discussions with trade unions on seafarer jobs providing DFDS services to Jersey from (a) Poole and (b) Portsmouth.

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Answering body: Department for Transport
Tabled: 4 Mar 2025
Target answer date: 6 Mar 2025
Answer: 12 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

4 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has had discussions with trade unions on seafarer jobs providing DFDS services to Jersey from (a) Poole and (b) Portsmouth.
6 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Mar 2025
Answer published
Ministers and officials meet regularly with the trade unions to discuss seafarers. The issue of seafarer jobs on the new DFDS services to Jersey has not been raised.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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